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    <body><![CDATA[While the author let some interesting cultural biases slip in, the speculations about what a Neanderthal-based civilization might have been like are fascinating. For instance, if your civilization has no strong privacy taboos, how would that be reflected in the culture and the law?<br/>Oddly, the p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58544655">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish I could give this 3.5. Hmph. Anyway, I liked the premise - Neanderthal physicists accidentally open a gateway into our version of Earth. Their alternate universe is one in which Neanderthals, not Homo sapiens, became the dominant (and only) humans. One of the physicists gets trapped on our si...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52455056">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Anthropology, Biology and Phyics were my three favorite subjects in school, along with History, I guess. And this book completely straddles all of them. The writing style/character development may have lacked in certain areas, but overall, I found the story very entertaining. The idea of an advanced...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47323433">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed the premise - physicists accidentally open a gateway into another version of Earth. That alternate universe is one in which Neanderthals evolved into the only humans. One of the neanderthals gets trapped on our side of the universe for a bit, and hilarity ensues. <br/><br/>The comparison...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56164936">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hominids by Robert J Sawyer is the first in a series, and it also apparently won a Hugo Award. The book posits that there are many paralell universes. In one of them, Homo Sapiens became the dominant species of the world, but in another, Neanderthals did. A scientist from the Neanderthal world accid...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34942208">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What a fun book!  I enjoyed reading Hominids so much - it was like reading candy.  Despite being such a fun read, there's a lot of substance to this book, both scientifically and as a work of literature.<br/>Hominids is the story of a Neanderthal man, Ponter Bobbit, who lives in a parallel universe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33207439">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wendy read this trilogy and enjoyed it - and glancing over the back covers it looks to be something I'll like too.  And it comes recommended from Robert as well, so it's got two marks in its favor so far...<br/><br/>What a fantastic book.  I thoroughly enjoyed this one and look forward to the next...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26634397">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An entertaining read for sci-fi fans.<br/><br/>The action really begins in an alternate universe, where the Neanderthal hominids rose to global dominance instead of becoming an unsuccessful off-shoot of the human family tree. A Neanderthal physics experiment creates a connection between their time...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7948665">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very interesting book. Parallel universes: our earth today and an earth where Neanderthals survived and we went extinct. Sawyer uses this to make comparisons between the two societies on religion, science, political systems, morality, marriage, legal systems, etc. On the downside he portra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66317443">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[First in a series, this one is a speculative fiction about a parallel world where Neanderthals developed consciousness and we didn't. Then in present time, a pair of Neanderthal scientists working on a quantum computer accidentally open a rift into our world. Lots of social commentary about how thin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55147793">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book--especially the contrast between the two paths of development. At times, it felt like the whole book was an excuse--a very good excuse--to think about what the world would have developed like without the influence of religion. As an excuse, the initial rape scene was a lit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81663036">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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