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69) Popescu, Petru. ALMOST ADAM. WIlliam Morrow: 1996
Almost Adam is both a thriller and an accessible crash course anthropology; a decently written adventure full of science, suspense and mystery.
Paleoanthropologist Ken Lauder, an American scientist in Africa, discovers a protohuman fossil and footprints that come under question as to just how old they are. As he closes in on the truth, a Kenyan cover-up and revolution move the plot in two overlapping arenas. When Lauder ends up abandoned and hunted in the unforgiving African savanna, he comes into contact with a being that shouldn't exist.
Almost Adam is both a thriller and an accessible crash course anthropology; a decently written adventure full of science, suspense and mystery.
Paleoanthropologist Ken Lauder, an American scientist in Africa, discovers a protohuman fossil and footprints that come under question as to just how old they are. As he closes in on the truth, a Kenyan cover-up and revolution move the plot in two overlapping arenas. When Lauder ends up abandoned and hunted in the unforgiving African savanna, he comes into contact with a being that shouldn't exist.
