Name: Life as Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal
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Author: Juan José Millas
ISBN: 9781957363066

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Life as Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

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Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

13.5 x 20.8 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9781957363066

Synopsis "Life as Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal "

Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look. Juan José Millás has always felt like he doesn't quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if he is even a Homo sapiens at all, or something simpler. Perhaps he is a Neanderthal who somehow survived? So he turns to Juan Luis Arsuaga, one of the world's leading palaeontologists and a super-smart sapiens, to explain why we are the way we are and where we come from. Over the course of many months, the two visit different places, many of them common scenes of our daily lives, and others unique archaeological sites. Arsuaga tries to teach the Neanderthal how to think like a sapiens and, above all, that prehistory is not a thing of the past: that traces of humanity through the millennia can be found anywhere, from a cave or a landscape to a children's playground or a toy shop. Millás and Arsuaga invite you on a journey of wonder that unites scientific discovery with the greatest human invention of all: the art of storytelling.

Juan José Millás

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Juan José Millás Fernández (Valencia, 1946) es un escritor y periodista español de gran prestigio, autor prolífico en novela, cuento, columna de opinión y ensayo. Su obra se caracteriza por explorar la identidad, la realidad cotidiana transformada por lo fantástico, lo psicológico y las contradicciones humanas, siempre con un lenguaje claro pero cargado de ironía y profundidad. Algunas de sus novelas centrales son La soledad era esto, El mundo, Dos mujeres en Praga y Lo que sé de los hombrecillos.

Millás ha sido galardonado con varios premios literarios importantes: entre ellos el Premio Nadal, el Premio Planeta y el Premio Nacional de Narrativa. También ha sido reconocido como periodista, recibiendo distinciones por su labor en medios escritos. Leer a Millás es sumergirse en historias que irrumpen en lo extraordinario a partir de lo cotidiano.

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Juan Luis Arsuaga

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Juan Luis Arsuaga (Madrid, 1954) holds a degree and PhD in Biological Sciences and is a professor of Paleontology at the Complutense University of Madrid. He is one of the world's leading paleontologists and the most important science communicator in Spain. Co-director of the Atapuerca research team, he has been awarded the Princess of Asturias Award, among many others. In 1992, he discovered the most complete skull in the fossil record of human evolution in the Sima de los Huesos. He is the scientific director of the Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos and a member of the United States Academy of Sciences. He has been named doctor honoris causa by the universities of Burgos, Zaragoza, and Polytechnic University of Valencia. He is the author of major publishing successes translated into multiple languages, such as The Chosen Species (1998), The Neanderthal's Necklace (1999), Amalur: From Atom to Mind (2002), and Life, the Great Story (2019), and together with Juan José Millás, of the books Life Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal (2020) and Death Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal (2022). In 2023 he published Our Body; in 2024, Destiny recovers the novel On the Other Side of the Fog.

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