THE LIVES OF OUR HUNTER-GATHERER ANCESTORS -- 7/22/15
Today's selection -- from Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. The lives of our hunter-gatherer ancestors tens of thousands of years ago was in many ways far better than the lives of people the the agricultural communities that followed them. And their brains may have been larger:
"Most Sapiens bands lived on the road, roaming from place to place in search of food. Their movements were influenced by the changing seasons, the annual migrations of animals and the growth cycles of plants. They usually travelled back and forth across the same home territory, an area of between several dozen and many hundred of square miles. ...
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