{"id":25054,"date":"2010-07-16T08:11:05","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T08:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/%e2%80%9cthe-inheritors%e2%80%9d-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2010-07-16T08:11:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T08:11:05","slug":"%e2%80%9cthe-inheritors%e2%80%9d-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/%e2%80%9cthe-inheritors%e2%80%9d-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Inheritors\u201d | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"8853_jpg_280x450_q85\"<\/a>I just purchased a copy of William Golding’s The Inheritors<\/a>. Golding is famous for writing Lord of the Flies<\/a>, a work of literature of such influence that it has made the transition into our everyday lexicon. But I just listened to a podcast<\/a> of an interview with a biographer<\/a> of the great author, and it seems that Golding and many of his admirers who are “close readers” judge The Inheritors<\/a> as his finest novel.<\/p>

The general outline of the plot is easy enough to find on Wikipedia, it is one of those stories about the transition from a “bushy” hominin tree of life to the dominance of H. sapiens sapiens<\/em>. Neandertals are finally expiring as a species in the face of the advance of modern humans, who marginalize and extirpate all those who came before. But I get the impression that the execution of Golding’s attempt is very different from Clan of the Cave Bear<\/a>. Not having read the book yet I do not know if William Golding’s depiction is up to snuff with the latest scholarship on the Neandertals (granted, I am not up to date on the latest scholarship on Neandertals!), though he did guess correctly<\/a> in all likelihood as to their pigmentation. But, in light of the highly probable non-trivial Neandertal ancestry in over 80% of humans, I feel like revisiting Golding’s vision in the near future, as we carry within our genomes the shadows of both<\/em> the inheritors and the dispossessed. <\/strong><\/p>

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