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Philosopher, historian and bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari regularly travels to India to practice Vipassana. “If not for meditation, I’d still be researching medieval military history and not talking about Neanderthals and cyborgs,” he shared during an absorbing session at the Times Litfest 2023. “The key thing when writing big…

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In many popular accounts of human prehistory, civilization emerged in a linear fashion. Our ancestors started as Paleolithic hunter-gatherers living in small, nomadic and egalitarian bands. Later, they discovered farming and domesticated animals for food and service.