Homo Extinctus

Serendipity & Sapiens

Of the many varieties of humans who've walked the Earth, only one survives - us, all Africans.

Evolutionary ecologist Clive Finlayson says the Neanderthals were another kind of human, and their culture was not so very different from that of our own ancestors. In this book, he presents a wider view of the events that led to the migration of the moderns into Europe, what might have happened during the contact of the two populations, and what finally drove the Neanderthals to extinction. He considers climate, culture, ecology, plus migrations of populations and their interactions.

Audio: CBC Radio's Quirks & Quarks, Host: Bob McDonald.