Clan of the Cave Bear

Clan of the Cave Bear

For older Students


Oh well that sucks. Sounds like she given up on finishing the series. Supposed to be 7 books rather than 6 but since I have not finished reading that I guess I will be happy for a while. Despite Wikipedia her DNA breeding theory has been proved as far as i can see. Not the first author I had read that "proved" stuff ahead of the curve.

Everyone living outside of Africa today has a small amount of Neanderthal in them, carried as a living relic of these ancient encounters. A team of scientists comparing the full genomes of the two species concluded that most Europeans and Asians have between 1 to 4 percent Neanderthal DNA. Indigenous sub-Saharan Africans have no Neanderthal DNA because their ancestors did not migrate through Eurasia.

On one level, it’s not surprising that modern humans were able to interbreed with their close cousins. According to one theory, Neanderthals, Denisovans, and all modern humans are all descended from the ancient human Homo heidelbergensis. Between 300,000 to 400,000 years ago, an ancestral group of H. heidelbergensis left Africa and then split 

https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/neanderthal/

Wiki is wrong again:

In addition, Auel's series incorporates a number of recent archeological and anthropological theories. It also suggested the notion of Sapiens-Neanderthal interbreeding. Although in recent years the sequencing of Neandertal mitochondrial DNA first indicated that it was highly improbable that Neandertals contributed to the human genome,^[1] further research of the human genome has raised the possibility that there was interbreeding.^[2]

The author's treatment of unconventional sexual practices (which are central to her hypothesized nature-centered religions) has earned the series the twentieth place on the American Library Association's 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000.^[3]