Table of Contents

1: The road to extinction is paved with good intentions2: Once we were not alone3: Failed experiments4: Stick to what you know best5: Being in the right place at the right time6: If only...7: Africa in Europe - a Mediterranean Serengeti8: One small step for man...9: Forever opportunists10: The pawn turned playerEpilogue: Children of chanceEndnotes

About the Author

Clive Finlayson is Director of the Gibraltar Museum and adjunct professor at the University of Toronto. He is an evolutionary ecologist with a DPhil from the University of Oxford. For the past fifteen years he has combined his ecological work with birds with leading an international multidisciplinary project that has focused on excavations of the Pleistocene caves in Gibraltar, especially Gorham's Cave, recently confirmed as the site of the last Neanderthals on the
planet. His previous publication was Neanderthals and Modern Humans: An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective (CUP, 2004).

Reviews

"A refreshing new perspective on this old debate....should be essential reading for everyone interested in human origins." - Fortean Times, Mark Greener "Lively, revelatory, and salutary book." - The Independent

"A refreshing new perspective on this old debate....should be essential reading for everyone interested in human origins." - Fortean Times, Mark Greener "Lively, revelatory, and salutary book." - The Independent