Neanderthals and the Garden of Eden: Running with Wolves

by R.W. Richard

Stories, myths, and holy texts tell a similar story of man’s beginnings, describing an age of innocence and special relationships with animals. There ought to be some truth here. Thanks to recent scientific discoveries & popular theories, I’ve pieced together an incredible story that fits all the facts. I think I was inspired, because the story just hit me. I like to say, “My dog told me the story.” In a way he did.

Facts and theories not commonly known, but addressed in this novel:
1. Neanderthals spoke as well as we do.
2. Neanderthals and Homo sapiens at the primary time of the story (100,000 years ago) had much larger brains than we do today. Find out why.
3. There is no evidence of war, between sparse human populations until near the end of the Ice Age. Neanderthals were assimilated by Homo sapiens.
4. Mitochondrial Eve lived somewhere between 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. You’ll meet her.
5. Migrations from Africa to the Middle East and points north occurred around 100,000 years ago* (and at various other points in time). *This migration out of Africa of Homo sapiens takes up the first few chapters of the novel.
6. Neanderthals and Homo sapiens have the same ancestor, referred to in the story as The First Man Standing. His story is featured.
7. Dog DNA goes back to wolves between 40,000 to 135,000 years ago, long before domestication. Humans and wolves were symbiotic as early as 700,000 years ago. Some theorists believe wolves saved the entire northern population of humans on first meeting and thereafter.
8. Man had a complex understanding of the uses of plants.
9. The modern world’s commonplace conceits, deceits, & murders didn’t exist 100,000 years ago. These innocents said or showed what they thought.

The whole family* can enjoy this story. Author’s note: the best way to present tribe and pack life is to feature various tribal and pack members as they go about loving and living with a one-for-all and all-for-one mentality. *Although written at an adult level (includes various love stories), children as young as eleven should be able to read it, because the love scenes are not explicit.

190 pages, Paperback

First published December 9, 2009

About the author

My latest, The Chess Master, is similar to The Queen's Gambit. I hope you'll enjoy it. I primarily write interracial, multicultural romance novels with a great love for romantic comedies. In movies, and of this genre, my favorites are It Happened One Night, You've Got Mail, and Sleepless in Seattle. In books, my favorites are Natural Born Charmer and First Lady.
My romance, Autumn Breeze, won best general romance by the san Diego Book Awards Association. A More Perfect Union was a finalist. I also wrote Angel's Eyes, Double Happiness, The Wolves of Sherwood Forest, 101 Tips, Primarily on Writing Male Characters, and Neanderthals and the Garden of Eden.
Come visit my blog at Https://romancetheguyspov.blogspot.com
or my web site: https://rwrichardnet.wordpress.com

Reviews

[Itsatushy Garland · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book Sat in my library for a long time. I figured I'll give it a shot. By the second chapter I was so lost and confused. I had to re read over quite a few parts. I was getting frustrated and on the edge of putting this on the dreaded put down for a bit shelf.

I stuck with it and o my goodness to my utter surprise this is a gem of a story!

Not my normal genre but what a beautiful story so worth slogging through the begainning. It is going somewhere I swear, and that somewhere is amazing.Just wow.

I am dinging it a star because I feel the first few chapters need hack and slash editing boarding on total rewrite. Don't let the beginning distract you from this amazing story that will sweep you back 100,000 years and warm your soul.