I found this to be a refreshing approach. The authors were modest in acknowledging a changing matrix of constantly updating data in the field, but creative in providing (to available information) plausible fictive narrative accounts from the perspective of children within their social structures and networks of various periods and cultures. Climate, language, haplotypes, tool cultures, biota—all are contextualized as relevant backdrop to the sweeping panorama of our ancestors.
If you are seeking a thorough textbook-like discussion of each of these cultures/“species” (e.g, Denisovans, H.naledi, Epigravettian culture, etc), then this book likely isn’t for you. But if you’re looking for a more matriarchal societal perspective on the changes of the human family in the mists of the Paleolithic, you will likely enjoy this.