Volume 41, Number 17 · October 20, 1994

So Near and Yet So Far

By Stephen Jay Gould
The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind
by Erik Trinkaus, by Pat Shipman

Knopf, 452 pp., $30.00

In Search of the Neanderthals: Solving the Puzzle of Human Origins
by Christopher Stringer, by Clive Gamble

Thames and Hudson, 247 pp., $29.95

Lady Psyche, Professor of Humanities at Castle Adamant, the Women's University of Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida, sings a lesson about the depravity of man (and she does mean 'male persons,' though I will generalize):



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