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A review by alyshadeshae
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes by Svante Pääbo, Signe Rummo
5.0
This book was wild!
I'm normally not interested when authors try to insert bits about their private lives into nonfiction books that aren't biographies, but this one took me for a loop. I felt like I was watching a documentary, but the feed kept getting hijacked by a reality show.
First was the "would one day be my wife" comment, which got a hard eye-roll because what has that to do with the DNA!? Then was the "dating a girl was different than all my previous boyfriends" bit and being bisexual in Germany, and I was like "wait a minute! boyfriends? I'm here for boyfriends - tell me more!" Then he dropped in the bit about masturbating for science; I mean, he says they produced semen samples - I extrapolated from there.
I'm normally not interested when authors try to insert bits about their private lives into nonfiction books that aren't biographies, but this one took me for a loop. I felt like I was watching a documentary, but the feed kept getting hijacked by a reality show.
First was the "would one day be my wife" comment, which got a hard eye-roll because what has that to do with the DNA!? Then was the "dating a girl was different than all my previous boyfriends" bit and being bisexual in Germany, and I was like "wait a minute! boyfriends? I'm here for boyfriends - tell me more!" Then he dropped in the bit about masturbating for science; I mean, he says they produced semen samples - I extrapolated from there.