"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Hominids is the winner of the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel. How can he possibly prove his innocence when he has no idea what actually happened to Ponter? Ponter's partner, Adikor Huld, finds himself with a messy lab, a missing body, suspicious people all around and an explosive murder trial. But Ponter is also befriended―by a doctor and a physicist who share his questing intelligence, and especially by Canadian geneticist Mary Vaughan, a woman with whom he develops a special rapport. Almost immediately recognized as a Neanderthal, but only much later as a scientist, he is quarantined and studied, alone and bewildered, a stranger in a strange land. Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist, accidentally pierces the barrier between worlds and is transferred to our universe. The Neanderthal civilization has reached heights of culture and science comparable to our own, but with radically different history, society and philosophy. We are one of those species the other is the Neanderthals of a parallel world where they became the dominant intelligence. Hominids examines two unique species of people.
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