Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

Dazzling The charming result of this collaboration combines Millss surreal, ironic humour and beautiful reflections with Arsuagas expertise, expressed with sharp and surprising observations and an ability to bring prehistory up to date. -- Rebecca Wragg Sykes * New Scientist * A very special book indeed: a passionate, sympathetic portrait of one life scientists world view. -- Simon Ings * The Telegraph * Novelist Mills and palaeontologist Arsuaga combine forces in this introspective and playful exploration of human prehistory and evolution Erudite yet fun, this is an illuminating trip into the past. * Publishers Weekly * A lovely book, full of information and wisdom No doubt comparisons will be made to Yuval Noah Hararis Sapiens, but Life as Told By a Sapiens to a Neanderthal, is much more fun It makes you want more. What better recommendation for any book can there be than this? Roll on Life as Told By a Sapiens to a Neanderthal volume 2. -- Neil Robinson * Irish Examiner * Charming. -- Simon Ings * New Scientist * Written with humour and lightly-worn learning, this book makes the familiar strange and the strange uncannily familiar; a fascinating journey into our shared prehistory via the shops, galleries, restaurants, playgrounds, and parks of a twenty-first century city. -- Helen Gordon, author of <em>Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future World</em> Absorbing, amusing, and enlightening; a charming exploration not only of evolution, but of human enquiry and wonder. -- Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of <em>Kindred: Neanderthal life, love, death and art</em> Mills is one of the writers with the most truth per square centimetre of a page. -- Antonio Iturbe * What to Read * We like wise men to explain things to us and understand each other. This is what Arsuaga does wonderfully in his book, a luminous treatise on life, the universe, and human existence. -- Vctor M. Amela * La Vanguardia * Juan Jos Mills is the owner of a fantastic territory of unquestionable personality. -- J.E. Ayala-Dip * El Pas * Juan Luis Arsuaga has recounted that prodigious start of human life with all the force of the great chronicles of travel and discoveries, with his double talent as a storyteller and scientist. -- Antonio Muoz Molina [Arsuaga] is one of the worlds leading experts on the evolution of our species, as well as a prestigious scientist and a born populariser. -- Ixone Daz Landaluce * ABC * Mills takes advantage of the present to tell us about his life, to express his perplexity, which is ours, before the passing of the world Navigating through it allows our imagination to travel. -- Fernando Delgado * La Opinion *

Juan Jos Mills is a bestselling and multi awardwinning Spanish novelist and short-story writer, and an award-winning regular contributor to major Spanish newspapers. His narrative works have been translated into more than 20 languages, and include the novels From the Shadows and None Shall Sleep. Juan Luis Arsuaga is a professor of paleontology at the Complutense University of Madrid and the director of the Human Evolution and Behaviour Institute. He is a member of the American National Academy of Sciences and of the Muse de lHomme of Paris, a visiting professor at University College London, and a co-director of excavations at the Sierra de Atapuerca World Heritage site. He is a regular contributor to Nature, Science, and the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, is the editor of the Journal of Human Evolution, and is a regular lecturer at the universities of London, Cambridge, Berkeley, New York, Tel Aviv, and Zurich, among others. The recipient of many national and international awards, he is the author of more than a dozen works. Thomas Bunstead is a writer and translator, and currently a Royal Literary Fellow at Aberystwyth University (202123). His recent translations include Portrait of an Unknown Lady by Mara Gainza and Skin by Sergio del Molino. Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor, and translator, with some eighty books to his name. His work has won him the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award, and has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, among many others. His recent translations include Diamela Eltits Never Did the Fire, a novel, and Sidarta Ribeiros The Oracle of Night, a nonfiction book about neuroscience and dreaming.