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hunter-gatherer

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a member of a hunting and gathering society

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The best estimates are that it takes a minimum of fifty thousand years for an adaptation to show up in the human genome. This is called evolutionary lag... Our hunter-gatherer ancestors had a very different lifestyle... Daniel Levitin

People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies. Helen Fisher

Intertribal aggression, escalating in some cultures to limited warfare, is common enough to be regarded as a general characteristic of hunter-gatherer social behavior. E. O. Wilson

The selection pressures of hunter-gatherer existence have persisted for over 99 percent of human evolution. E. O. Wilson

Survival-of the species of the culture of the faith-has a biological dimension. What would have befallen our Hominid ancestors had they implemented gender parity in their hunter-gatherer societies-sometimes the women hunt while the men forage and mind the kids, and vice versa? Ilana Mercer

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa. Noam Chomsky

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