Deborah Barsky is a researcher at the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution and associate professor at the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona, Spain, with the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). She is the author of Human Prehistory: Exploring the Past to Understand the Future (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
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Is large-scale intra-specific warfare Homo sapiens’ condition or can our species strive to achieve global peace?
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How can we understand the passage of time?
Recent developments in the study of human prehistory hold clues about our times, our world, and ourselves.
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