History, prehistory & deep time.- Genesis.- Star Wars bar.- The apes and us.- The quest for fire.- The naked ape.- Lucy and the others.- Yesterday's menu.- Ancient remedies for ancient diseases.- Hominin's life.- The dear departed in the Pleistocene.- Brain readers.- All the power to imagination.- Primordial economics.- (Not) conclusive remarks.
Claudio Tuniz is a scientist at the Abdus Salam International
Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, and an Associated
Scientist at the Fermi Centre in Rome. He is also Visiting
Professor at the Centre for Archaeological Science of the
University of Wollongong in Australia and Visiting Scientist
at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization
(ANSTO). Dr. Tuniz has previously published the books Radioactivity
(Oxford University Press, UK, 2013), L'atomo inquieto (Carocci,
Italy, 2014), The Science of Our Origins (with G. Manzi and D.
Caramelli; Laterza, Italy, 2013, Left Coast Press, USA, 2014), and
The Bone Readers (with R. Gillespie and C. Jones; Allen and Unwin,
Australia, 2009, Left Coast Press, USA, 2009, Springer, 2010).
Patrizia Tiberi Vipraio was Full Professor of Economic Policy and
Associate Professor of International Economics at the University of
Udine, Italy, where she also lectured on Monetary Policy and
Industrial Economics. She hasbeen associated with various other
universities in Europe and Australia. She is the author of a number
of academic papers and books, including Dal mercantilismo alla
globalizzazione [From Mercantilism to Globalization] (Il Mulino,
Bologna, 1999).
“This great little book deserves to be read by all people concerned to understand where we, as a species, came from and how the challenges we now face reflect that long historical evolution. Serious engagement with understanding our ‘deep history’ takes us into the realms of anthropology, archaeology, natural history, geology and geography.” (Frank Stilwell, Journal of Australian Political Economy, Issue 79, 2017)
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