... "I was probably not the only one who wondered if someone I knew or happened to meet could be a little more Neanderthal than everyone else," Oxford professor of archeology Tom Higham jokingly argues in his book. And then it gives a convincing scientific justification that this is really possible. Over the past twenty years, knowledge of the evolution of our Homo genus has undergone impressive changes. Studies have clearly shown that 50,000 years ago, the Earth was a picture of pristine, dense complexity. Borrowing the image from J.R.R. Tolkien, we can say that the variety of forms of the human race, our planet was like Middle-earth. In different parts of the world, it was possible to find five or six, if not more, different types of people. Neanderthals, Denisovans, people from Luzon and even "hobbits" - what mark did they leave in each of us? Who are we and each other? What contacts could there be between them? The author illustrates the answers to these questions with maps of archaeological sites, photographs of finds and amazing stories like a plot about a genetic hybrid of two different types of people. To the study of this girl, born 90,000 years ago from a Neanderthal mother and Denisovan father, Higham had a direct relationship.