98:, portrayed Neanderthals as light-skinned and Cro-Magnons as more racially varied, either light or dark-skinned. The author himself says "The book is not intended to be a 'theory about interaction between Neanderthals and Modern Humans', it is just a fictive description of one possible scenario among several that
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Kurtén postulates that this attraction led to intermarriage between the two people, which produced sterile offspring. He emphasizes the possibility of
Neanderthal extinction through inter-breeding rather than through violence. He also presents social differences between the two groups, presenting
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Kurtén has managed to insinuate into his story—in a way so subtle and natural that we can scarcely recognize he is teaching as well as novelizing—every fact and theory that I know (and several, undoubtedly, that I don't) about
Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons, human evolution during the Ice Age, glacial
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To the Whites, the Blacks were godlike, tall and eloquent, with a speech as varied and flexible as that of the birds. And there was something else. No White could look at the clear brow of a Black without feeling a mysterious tenderness, such as a child might evoke in the heart of his parents.
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Neanderthals are depicted as white-skinned, while Cro-Magnons are dark. Kurtén's skin color identification for both populations appears to agree with recent DNA studies, including those proposing the
African origin of modern humans. His racial presentation of the Cro-Magnon is in contrast to
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the Cro-Magnon people as more aggressive, practicing slavery and choosing violence to solve social problems. The
Neanderthal society, based on a matriarchal system, is drawn as peace-loving with elaborate social rituals designed to resolve problems.
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Cro-Magnon children and adults are portrayed as having smooth brows and small faces; the characteristic features of childhood act as "innate releasing mechanisms" for feelings of affection.
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Caramelli, D; Lalueza-Fox, C; Vernesi, C; Lari, M; Casoli, A; Mallegni, F; Chiarelli, B; Dupanloup, I; Bertranpetit, J; Barbujani, G; Bertorelle, G (May 2003).
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geology, and ecology and behavior of the great Ice Age mammals, including mammoths and saber-toothed tigers.
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occupied same areas in the same time in Europe has been confirmed by fossil evidence.
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Kurtén was not the first novelist to examine the subject; for instance author
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57:. A sequel,
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