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The actual happiness of hunter-gatherers is seriously in dispute. It's by no means a settled anthropological question. For a useful perspective from the other
by quanticle 11y ago
The actual happiness of hunter-gatherers is seriously in dispute. It's by no means a settled anthropological question.
For a useful perspective from the other side, you might want to read Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature.
- xyzzy4 11y agoThis is just my speculation but I bet it depended on wild animal populations, rainfalls vs droughts, peacefulness of neighboring tribes, etc. I don't think you can generalize on the happiness of all hunter gatherers.