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> by other peoples' apparent surprise about their high functioning A lot of high school textbooks carried a very simplified message about human evolution and b
by 15457345234 3y ago
> by other peoples' apparent surprise about their high functioning
A lot of high school textbooks carried a very simplified message about human evolution and basically included neanderthals as 'a branch of human evolution that died out due to being dumb.'
Sci-fi authors actually gave the subject a fairly good treatment, quite a few sci-fi books covered neanderthals and posited neanderthal/sapiens tribal wars etc.
Couple of short stories in the Man-Kzin Wars books cover the subject:
Cathouse (in The Man-Kzin Wars)
and
Briar Patch (in The Man-Kzin Wars II )
both by Dean Ing
Very much worth a read...
- enasterosophes 3y agoyeah, I understand that bias from the general population who don't read scifi :) When I was a kid I liked Asimov's Child of Time.
- 15457345234 3y agoHaven't read that one, might have to give it a glance. Always thought Asimov a bit dry, preferred Niven's more... whimsical style of writing.