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This isn’t true. When you look at modern hunter gatherers who don’t practice agriculture today, the bulk of the calories still come from plants they forage rath
by kjkjadksj 3y ago
This isn’t true. When you look at modern hunter gatherers who don’t practice agriculture today, the bulk of the calories still come from plants they forage rather than meat.
- jononomo 3y agoThat's because we hunted all the megafauna to extinction during the Pleistocene. Modern hunter gatherers live in the modern world.
- ianburrell 3y agoThe megafauna extinction was in the Americas. Human coexist with megafauna in Africa: elephant, giraffe, hippo, rhino. Megafauna don't make much of diet of African hunter-gatherers cause they are a lot of work to hunt. They hunt smaller game. Gathering is much easier and safer.
- jononomo 3y agoElephants are easy to hunt — they turn toward you and easily fall into disguised holes. They’re now protected by governments, however.