La vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal

For years, the interest in understanding life, its origins and its evolution resonates in the head of Juan José Millás, so he set out to meet, together with one of the greatest specialists in this country in the field, Juan Luis Arsuaga, why we are the way we are and what has led us to where we are. The wisdom of the paleontologist is combined in this book with the wit and personal and surprising view that the writer has on reality. Because Millás is a Neanderthal (or so he says), and Arsuaga, in his eyes, a sapiens. Thus, over the course of many months, the two visited different places, many of them common settings in our daily lives, and others, unique locations where you can still see the vestiges of what we were, of the place we came from. In these outings, which may remind the reader of those of Don Quixote and Sancho, the sapiens tried to teach the Neanderthal how to think like a sapiens and, above all, that prehistory is not a thing of the past: the footprints of humanity through of the millennia can be found anywhere, from a cave or a landscape to a playground or a plush shop. It is life that beats in this book. The best of stories.