People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy,… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“Then, too, the Ju/wa men had an inherent, almost natural bravery that everyone took entirely for granted. They hunted the world’s most… — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Copy Share Image
We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information. — J.P. Rangaswami Copy Share Image
I do have a dominant shopping gene but, unlike a reasonable person, I never plan for what I need each season. I… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“One could imagine that a group of anthropologists and scientists sent off to study a previously uncontacted Amazon tribe today might be… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable,… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and wander around,… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The flute is traditionally the property of the male side of matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies and was used as a means of communication… — R. Carlos Nakai Copy Share Image
There's something very terrifying about that and very primal about it. It's my belief that what horror does for people is that… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this… — Jenna McCarthy Copy Share Image
If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least… — Ellen Dissanayake Copy Share Image
So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Human beings thrive on action. Stagnation does not wear well with us. We are said to have our origins as hunter-gatherers. We… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
It's an attitude of superiority. We are superior to the rest of life. The Book of Genesis says: 'Increase and multiply and… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
