![]() When the climate was congenial, though, when the food was plentiful, we were willing to stay put. We were bounded only by the Earth and the ocean and the sky-plus occasional grumpy neighbors. There were no border guards then, no customs officials. We could always begin again.įor 99.9 percent of the time since our species came to be, we were hunters and foragers, wanderers on the savannahs and the steppes. And when we couldn't get on with the others in our little nomadic band, we left to find a more friendly bunch somewhere else. When the drought was prolonged, or when an unsettling chill lingered in the summer air, our group moved on-sometimes to unknown lands. Then, as now, technology was the key to our survival. We taught them the skills they would need. ![]() Working together, we protected our children from the lions and the hyenas. Making it on our own was as ludicrous to imagine as was settling down… through stealth, feint, ambush, and main-force assault, a few of us cooperating accomplished what many of us, each hunting alone, could not. ![]() We followed the herds in their annual migrations. When the fruits or nuts were ripe, we were there. ![]() We knew every stand of tree for a hundred miles. ![]()
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