Hominids

Summary

The first book in Sawyer's Neanderthal Parallax trilogy imagines a parallel Earth where Neanderthals became the dominant intelligent species while Homo sapiens died out. A Neanderthal physicist named Ponter Boddit is accidentally transported into our world, where his peaceful, ecologically balanced society throws the violence and customs of modern humanity into sharp relief. Sawyer uses hard science fiction to examine anthropology, religion, justice, and what it means to be human.