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Thursday 25 February 2016

from "The National Geographic" magazine.

"The Hadza do not engage in warfare.
They've never lived densely enough to be seriously threatened by an infectious outbreak.
They have no known history of famine;
rather, there is evidence of people from a farming group coming to live with them during a time of crop failure.
The Hadza diet remains even today more stable and varied than that of most of the world's citizens.
They enjoy an extraordinary amount of leisure time.
Anthropologists have estimated that they "work"—actively pursue food—four to six hours a day. [Rain-forest 'pygmies' "worked" even less.]
And over all these thousands of years, they've left hardly more than a footprint on the land."

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Señor Auban,
The Hadza are an "anomaly" among the homo sapiens/rapiens. Raul

Wofl said...

So also are you and I, Raúl.
There may be more of us than we dare to think.
Or perhaps not...