Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth

I read this book because it seemed at least partially tangential to my interest in the origins of human language, and indeed the author does touch on that subject. I found fascinating the study of fossils from various sites around the world attempting to date and identify them by species. The author has a lot of data to work with and specimens from an immense range of time, making the whole proposition somewhat confusing. His conclusions validating the Recent African Origin theory of Homo Sapiens are very interesting, but I do wish we knew more about, especially, the Neanderthals.