We Have Hunter-Gatherer Brains
For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and so creative eventually emerged. Today we stand with the brains of hunter-gatherers in our heads, looking out on a modern world made comfortable for some by the fruits of human inventiveness, and made miserable for others by the scandal of deprivation in the midst of plenty.
Richard E. Leakey, Roger Lewin, Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human (1993-10-01)
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Attempting to work in a modern world where some hoard their comforts and other go without.
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