TIMOTHY TAYLOR is the Jan Eisner Professor of Archaeology at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of World Prehistory. He was educated at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Sofia. He was Reader in Archaeology at the University of Bradford until 2012 and, until 2020, Professor of the Prehistory of Humanity at the University of Vienna, Austria, where he also directed the Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science. He is the author of The Prehistory of Sex: Four Million Years of Human Sexual Culture, The Buried Soul, and The Artificial Ape.