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An impressive work, collecting the most up-to-date facts about our most famous fellow hominid. The span of this book is enormous, covering every possible aspect of the Neanderthal's lifestyle. Describing many discoveries, Sykes is also painting an interesting history of paleontology and scientific progress.

The book is very detailed, sometimes to a fault - a whole chapter about different methods of making stone tools was somewhat exhausting. Sykes sometimes is taking an astonishing leap of faith, trying to imagine the inner life of so long gone beings. She is disarmingly biased towards her subjects of study but after over a century of slander, I suppose the Neanderthal deserves to have such a valiant advocate.

Thanks to the publisher, Bloomsbury USA, and NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book.