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.

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Attempting to work in a modern world where some hoard their comforts and other go without.

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 Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Leakey , Richard E. and Lewin , Roger (1993-10-01), Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human, Anchor, Retrieved on 2012-06-11
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