Within two chapters I sadly realized that I would not finish this book. The John Lubbock character is a distraction and unnecessary. Inserting this fictional being sporadically into the text was extremely annoying. The hardback will go to the local library free book shelves. It is not the subject matter (anthropology was my undergraduate major), it is the style that is the problem. Whatever other stylistic issues may exist, I could not tolerate this useless, irritating intrusion.