The Naked Neanderthal Quotes

“The Neanderthal was never just another version of us, but we are a long way off understanding its own ways of being human.”
― Ludovic Slimak, The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature

“Whether drilled into a shell, a tooth or a bone, the first Neanderthal hole has simply not yet been discovered.”
― Ludovic Slimak, The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature

“Was cannibalism one of the extreme survival strategies on the part of some of these peoples of the forest? Or were these acts a sign of something more profound, fragile archaeological evidence of ancient rituals that we have not been able to”
― Ludovic Slimak, The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature

“So even humans can die out without warning?”
― Ludovic Slimak, The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature

“Their distant testimonies tell us that the Neanderthals were never other versions of us – not brothers, not cousins – when it comes to mental structures, but an utterly different humanity.”
― Ludovic Slimak, The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature