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Hybrids by Robert J. Sawyer is the third and final book in The Neanderthal Parallax, exploring the imagined interaction between Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens via parallel universes. Hybrids completes what began in Hominids and continued in Humans.

Once again, Sawyer delves into where science and religion mix, this time “finding” the God organ in the human brain via its absence in the Neanderthal brain. Also, the military-industrial complex in human affairs comes into play, as part of general concern/suspicion about inter-species warfare if the portal between the two parallel universes is kept open indefinitely. Months after the fact, I can’t summon enthusiasm for this book, even though I enjoyed it at the time.

I will continue to read Sawyer, though, and when I find time to note Rollback, you’ll know why.