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Hunters and Gatherers
Hunting and gathering, humanity’s first and most successful
adaptation, occupies more than 90 percent of human history.^8 By
comparison, civilization is little more than a recent blip. It’s less awful
than it sounds: Paleolithic and Neolithic people spent just 10–
hours a week hunting and gathering the food they needed to survive.
The gatherers, in most cases women, were responsible for 80–
percent of the effort and yield.^9 The hunters mostly provided extra
protein.
This shouldn’t be surprising. Men tend to be better at evaluating at
a distance—where prey is first spotted. By comparison, women are
typically better at taking stock of their immediate surroundings.
Gatherers also needed to be more thoughtful about what they
collected. While a tomato couldn’t outrun her, the gatherer woman