When noted Harvard anthropologist Sam Wendell discovers a Neanderthal boy still living in southern Asia, he is certain the discovery will launch him into instant fame. But after Sam dies in a car accident, the young boy, Adam, ends up being adopted by Sam's widow Julia, and living in suburban Boston where his strange behavior draws more than passing interest, especially from the neighbors. Sam's former mistress, Max, herself an anthropologist, befriends Julia and decides that Adam will be her scientific find - but first she must give the Neanderthal his birthright: the genetic material that makes humans more civilized than cave dwellers - or does it?
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Stewart's ( Monkey Shines ) tale of a Neanderthal boy in a modern-day New England town is an also-ran--simply a variation on the popular theme of alien visitors, despite raising issues regarding scientific ethics. On a field trip to a remote corner of Armenia, anthropologist Sam Wendell finds and smuggles out a "valuable scientific property": a contemporary survivor of man's prehistoric predecessors. But when Sam dies en route home in an auto accident, his widow, Julia, adopts the lad, whom she calls Adam. Unaware of his origins, she believes him to be an inarticulate boy of about 12, though he has a man's strength and the "developmental level of a two-year-old." But Maxine Fitzgerald, a geneticist and Sam's former mistress, immediately sees there's something more to the boy's strangeness. Ingratiating herself with Julia, she surreptitiously examines Adam while prying into Sam's files for hints to Adam's background. Meanwhile a secretive, sinister quasi-governmental foundation keeps tabs on them all, exploiting Adam as a research subject and callously ignoring the fact that he's a biological time bomb endangering those around him.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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