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Viva_La_Revolution

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1. Jean Auel
Sat Apr 14, 2012, 10:28 AM
Apr 2012

I will, someday She lives here in the Metro area, and one of my twitterbuddies got to hear her speak at the Anthro conference yesterday.
Her books are the perfect mix of story and factual science. And the fact that we've just recently proven that Neander and Homo did mix, 20 years after she told the story makes me all the more in awe.

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