This evolution bestseller is filled with ironic humour, sharp insights and affectionate acknowledgement of human flaws – and finally ends up as a celebration of curiosity
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27 July 2022
Excavations at Atapuerca, close to Burgos, Spain, shed new gentle on the primary people in Europe agefotostock/Alamy
Life As Advised By a Sapiens to a Neanderthal
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IN THE Spanish metropolis of Burgos, a towering 13th-century Gothic cathedral stands reverse the Museum of Human Evolution. Constructed 800 years aside, these buildings are each devoted to discovering which means and exploring human origins, however the bones within the museum are 1000 instances older than the cathedral, and its “excessive priest” …