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Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
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Audiobook narrated by the author.
Far from the hulking idiot depictions in modern media, Kindred sheds some light on what life, society and the deep ancient world was like for some of our closest hominid cousins: the neanderthals.
- The amount of ratifiable and theoretical information in this book is astounding. Wragg Sykes has definitely researched this book extremely well and provides references for her thoughts, findings and conclusions. Sometimes this amount of detail becomes challenging, especially in audio format, but it is very comprehensive. The author also acknowledges the limitations of both the science and the books interpretations and how due to the depth of time ago these people lived, it is hard to know much for definite.
- Each chapter begins with an imagined scene from neanderthal life and I love how this helped connect me to the subject matter. As a mother, I definitely connected to the snippets involving children and birth and it made me want to know more and empathise with these long ago women.
- As I mentioned in my first point Wragg Sykes does not hold back on describing the limitations of science and work around neanderthals. However, I did like the ending of the book which focused a lot on biases and homo sapiens' societal problems which have impacted our knowledge, research, our own society and possibly our futures.
- My favourite fact from this book is that we share approximately 2-3% of our DNA with neanderthals due to prehistoric interbreeding. Knowing inside me somewhere might be an ancient neanderthal ancestor made my heart happy to be associated with these people, even if on an only genetic level.
A fascinating insight into a world homo sapiens have long forgotten. For anyone interested in precivilisation humanity, ancient life, natural history or even exploring what it means to be human, this would be an in-depth and occasionally very technical but enjoyable read.
Far from the hulking idiot depictions in modern media, Kindred sheds some light on what life, society and the deep ancient world was like for some of our closest hominid cousins: the neanderthals.
- The amount of ratifiable and theoretical information in this book is astounding. Wragg Sykes has definitely researched this book extremely well and provides references for her thoughts, findings and conclusions. Sometimes this amount of detail becomes challenging, especially in audio format, but it is very comprehensive. The author also acknowledges the limitations of both the science and the books interpretations and how due to the depth of time ago these people lived, it is hard to know much for definite.
- Each chapter begins with an imagined scene from neanderthal life and I love how this helped connect me to the subject matter. As a mother, I definitely connected to the snippets involving children and birth and it made me want to know more and empathise with these long ago women.
- As I mentioned in my first point Wragg Sykes does not hold back on describing the limitations of science and work around neanderthals. However, I did like the ending of the book which focused a lot on biases and homo sapiens' societal problems which have impacted our knowledge, research, our own society and possibly our futures.
- My favourite fact from this book is that we share approximately 2-3% of our DNA with neanderthals due to prehistoric interbreeding. Knowing inside me somewhere might be an ancient neanderthal ancestor made my heart happy to be associated with these people, even if on an only genetic level.
A fascinating insight into a world homo sapiens have long forgotten. For anyone interested in precivilisation humanity, ancient life, natural history or even exploring what it means to be human, this would be an in-depth and occasionally very technical but enjoyable read.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Grief, Incest, and Violence
Minor: Rape and Sexual violence
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