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Full Idea
Anthropology shows that the hunter-gathering lifestyle has occupied 99.5 per cent of the time humans have been on earth.
Gist of Idea
Humans have been hunter-gatherers for 99.5% of their existence
Source
Peter Watson (Convergence [2016], 13 'Emergence')
Book Ref
Watson,Peter: 'Convergence' [Simon and Schuster 2016], p.305
A Reaction
If you are trying to understand humanity, you ignore this fact at your peril. Even agriculture is only a tiny part of our history, and that only disappeared as a major human activity (in many nations) in the last hundred years.
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