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all over the world, there have been a fair number of people in remote areas who still live this foraging life, and so scholars have looked to them as a sort of window into humanity’s past. Anthropologists would go live with them, produce detailed reports, and the sense was that all these accounts pointed to men mainly hunting and women mainly gathering with occasional exceptions. But it appears this was based on scientists’ anecdotal impressions. No one had actually done a systematic tally of what all these observational reports actually said about women hunting.
✏️ There’s no proof that how people live now, even in remote areas, would be like how people lived 100 thousand years ago.
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