Monkey Blood: Us and Them

By P Michael Yates

What if blood matters more than modern culture dares admit?
We are told that blood is simple - a medical fluid, a laboratory category, a matter of typing, testing, and transfusion.

Blood has never stayed in the laboratory for long.
It has always carried bigger questions.
Inheritance. Continuity. Belonging. Difference. Memory. Power.

In Monkey Blood: Us and Them, P Michael Yates begins with the mystery of Rh negative blood and follows the question far beyond medicine. What starts as a rare blood anomaly opens into a far more dangerous landscape: elite bloodline claims, Basque origin mysteries, immunity questions, hidden continuity, fringe mythologies, and the unsettling persistence of ancient ideas beneath modern language.

This is not a book of timid summary. And it is not a book of empty sensationalism.

It is a bold, disciplined, provocative investigation into what happens when blood is treated as meaningful again - not as everything, but certainly not as nothing.

Why does a blood anomaly generate stories of alien ancestry, serpent bloodlines, royal descent, and lost civilisations?
Why do questions of blood keep returning whenever people begin asking deeper questions about ancestry, hierarchy, and survival? And why does modern culture work so hard to keep the subject small?

This book pushes past the approved limits.

Moving from biology to kinship, from kinship to hierarchy, from hierarchy to identity, memory, and civilisation, Monkey Blood: Us and Them argues that blood may sit closer to the roots of human order than we have been encouraged to believe.

Unsettling. magnetic. impossible to ignore. This is a book for readers willing to look where others are told not to.
Because once blood stops being trivial, the whole story changes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GXTZYHLK
• ISBN13: 9798258014634
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"