Human Prehistory: Exploring the Past to Understand the Future
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FEATURING DEBORAH BARSKY - Many of us recall our history teachers telling us in school that knowing history helps us understand the present and ensure we aren’t doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. A new book by a researcher of human prehistory says that exploring the past can help us understand the future.
In her book Human Prehistory, Deborah Barsky focuses on the invention of the earliest stone tools that homosapiens and their ancestors built and how they help define what it means to be human.
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