In Kindred, Rebecca Wragg Sykes combs through the avalanche of scientific discoveries of the species and uses her experience at the cutting-edge of Paleolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside cliches of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. But, in the past few decades, Neanderthal finds have greatly contradicted our perception of the species. Likening someone to a Neanderthal was and, most likely, still is a top-rate anthropological insult.
The common narrative of Neanderthals is that they were a group of dullard losers whose extinction 40,000 years ago was due to smarter competition and a little of interbreeding with our own forebears.
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