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Steven Mithen

Steven Mithen is Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Early Prehistory at the University of Reading. His books include The Prehistory of the Mind, After the Ice: A Global Human History, The Singing Neanderthals, and, most recently, Thirst: Water and Power in the Ancient World.
 (November 2016)

Freedom Through Cooking

Freedom Through Cooking

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

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Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language

by Dean Falk

October 22, 2009 issue

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