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Review title: Awful
Product review: I can't even begin to count the ways that Mr. Darnton messed up the science in this book. Yes, he provides a sketchy bibliography in the back, but I got the distinct feeling that he didn't read more than the introduction to those books.As for the story itself, it's one of the dumbest and most offensive I've come across in some time. The scholarly anthropologist (or paleontologist, which the author can't keep straight) goes out into the mountains of a former Soviet state and finds the Noble Savage. If the author had replaced the word Neandertal with Yanomami, !kung, or Native American, this book would never have made it to print. Apparently, it's okay to keep with the racist and destructive ways of white, Western society, just so long as the group of people being oppressed have been extinct for 40,000 years.
