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Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire . What you want, when you hold a pendant fashioned 35,000 years
ago by a Neanderthal—a fox's tooth with a tiny hole for a leather
string—what you want is something only the movies can give. A close-up,
in the lab's neon light, on the mottled canine between your fingers,
the focus so tight you can see the scratches made by the stone tool.
The picture fades, and next you see the same tooth in different hands,
stronger ones with beefy fingers: the hands of the
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