People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies. — Helen Fisher 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
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
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
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
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
“The Stone Age should more accurately be called the Wood Age, because most of the tools used by ancient hunter-gatherers were made… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
“That was why archaeologists and anthropologists had come across the ruins of complex societies throughout Mesoamerica and the Andes, but saw only… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“Earlier than about 10,000 years ago, all human populations were hunter gatherers. Soon, probably none will be. Those not extinct will be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Estimates are that the hunter-gatherers who were all but wiped out by the agricultural revolution numbered around 2 million 12,000 years ago.… — Adam Rutherford 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
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 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
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
For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the… — Janine Benyus 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
“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
“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
“The disorders that psychology associates with the dissonance between what parents say to children and what children know to be reality -… — Hugh Brody Copy Share Image
“In other words, a bunch of guys who spent their time running around the woods, hunting and fishing and trading meat for… — Richard Manning 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
“A behavior has occurred that is good, bad, or ambiguous. How have cultural factors stretching back to the origins of humans contributed… — Robert M. Sapolsky 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
“In the past few years, genetics have confirmed that the hunter-gatherers were not overwhelmed by the new wave of sedentary farmers, and… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“For the vast majority of our time on earth, our species did not buy its food or its clothing or its shelter… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“Hunter-gatherers no more live on the knife-edge of survival than wolves or lions or sparrows or rabbits. Man was as well adapted… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
In 10000 BC, all human beings were hunter-gatherers; by 1500 AD, 1 percent were hunter-gatherers. Less than .001 percent of people are hunter-gatherers today. — Robyn Davidson 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
We're visual creatures. Probably, when we were hunter gatherers... that was the kind of thing that mattered. And remembering, say, phone numbers… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“The change from the categories of hunter-gatherers to pastoralism to agriculture involved using a decreasing area of land, but an increasingly more… — Romila Thapar Copy Share Image
“Our genus, Homo, arose two and a half million years ago, and for more than ninety-nine percent of human existence, we all… — Michael Finkel 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
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
“One thing I know people will say to me is ‘Are you suggesting we go back to being hunter-gatherers?’” “That of course… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Most peasant farmers and herders, who constitute the great majority of the world's actual food producers, aren't necessarily better off than hunter-gatherers.… — Jared Diamond 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
“Society itself was a lonelier place. As a species, we had always been close to nature; from our days as hunter-gatherers to… — David Grimm 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
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