Author: Dimitra Papagianni

For too long the Neanderthals have been seen as evolutionary dead-ends but advances in DNA technologies have forced a reassessment of their place in our own past. This extensively illustrated book …

“Even-handed, up-to-date, and clearly written. . . . If you want to navigate between the Scylla and Charybdis of Neanderthal controversies, you’ll find no better guide.” —Brian Fagan, author of Cro-M …

‘In the first complete chronological narrative of the species from emergence to extinction…archaeologist Dimitra Papagianni and science historian Michael Morse have shaped a gem.’ —Nature In r …