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Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. More recently, the pendulum swung the other way and they are generally seen as our relatives: not quite human, but similar enough, and still not equal. Now, thanks to an ongoing revolution in paleoanthropology in which he has played a key part, Ludovic Slimak shows us that they are something altogether different--and they should be understood on their own terms rather than by comparing...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
40,000 years in the past, the last family of Neanderthals roams the earth. After a crushingly hard winter, their numbers are low, but Girl, the oldest daughter, is just coming of age and her family is determined to travel to the annual meeting place and find her a mate. But the unforgiving landscape takes its toll, and Girl is left alone to care for Runt, a foundling of unknown origin. As Girl and Runt face the coming winter storms, Girl realizes...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In Kindred, Neanderthal expert Rebecca Wragg Sykes shoves aside the cliché of the shivering ragged figure in an icy wasteland, and reveals the Neanderthal you don't know, our ancestor who lived across vast and diverse tracts of Eurasia and survived through hundreds of thousands of years of massive climate change. This book sheds new light on where they lived, what they ate, and the increasingly complex Neanderthal culture that researchers have discovered....
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
""En la naturaleza no hay vejez, no hay decrepitud. Solo hay plenitud o muerte". "Nos encantaría descubrir que cada especie tiene un reloj biológico en sus células, porque, de existir ese reloj y si fuéramos capaces de dar con él, quizá pudiéramos pararlo y de ese modo volvernos eternos", le plantea Arsuaga a Millás en este libro en el que la ciencia se entrelaza con la literatura. El paleontólogo desvela aspectos esenciales de nuestra existencia...
10) Caveboy crush
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Will the caveboy's crush respond favorably to his grand, attention-getting gestures?
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
With their large brains, sturdy physique, sophisticated tools, and hunting skills, Neanderthals are the closest known relatives to humans. Approximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe{u2014}descendants of a much earlier migration of the African genus Homo. But when modern humans eventually made their way to Europe 45,000 years ago,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Lucy and her goofball brother Andy, two Neanderthal siblings living 40,000 years ago, take on a wandering baby sibling, bossy teens, cave paintings, and a mammoth hunt. But what will happen when they encounter a group of humans? Includes a special paleontologist section that helps to dispel common Neanderthal myths"--
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Lucy and Andy have some extra space in the cave now the humans have moved out. But they do miss hanging with Sasha and Tommy. Luckily, their new friends live right around the ice block, close enough to form the first-ever explorer's club! These adventurers are on the hunt. Their first big discovery: dinosaur bones!"-- provided by publisher.
15) Year one
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Tribal nitwits, Zed and Oh, are two guys living in the year one. Neither one can hunt nor gather, so they are thrown out of their Neanderthal community and dung-and-stick huts. Zed eats the forbidden fruit and the two become curious about what may lay outside of their limited little world. They decide to embark on a journey through the ancient world. On their travels they meet Cain and Abel, Abraham and Isaac. They wind up in Sodom where their girlfriends...
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"To a young Neanderthal boy, the world is full of incredible adventures — and unexpected encounters, when he meets a human boy for the first time in this stunning, sparsely worded picture book. A prehistoric Neanderthal family arrives at their new home, a cave, after a long journey. But their young boy's imagination is seized by the beauty and promise of the valley below, and he sets out to explore all that the valley has to offer along, with his...
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