hunter-gatherer

The earth is bountiful enough for a person to live off it without working (hunter-gatherer).

If you are talking about hunter-gatherer societies, you'd be surprised to find out they didn't starve themselves regularly.

In a hunter-gatherer society, slow reaction time means no dinner.

My perception of history is that the majority of people in post-hunter-gatherer societies have always lived under someones thumb.

Pinker overestimates hunter-gatherer violence and underestimates non-direct violence in present times (such as US covert violence).

Jared Diamond speculates various reasons for why the people there didn't develop into a post-hunter-gatherer civilization (or much beyond that).

The switch from hunter-gatherer diet to modern diet was too fast to blame hill-climbing evolution errors.

The first step towards civilization is the move from nomadic hunter-gatherer to rooted agrarian society.

I'd bet money they were a lot closer to the Aztecs than to a typical hunter-gatherer band, though.

> status hierarchies are one of the few things that are common to every human civilization Supposedly hunter-gatherer societies are fairly non-heirarchical (hunter-gatherer bands not tribal farmer/herders).

Over most of human hunter-gatherer prehistory, the population was not generally resource-constrained.

I guess it's important to understand that paleo isn't an attempt to copy a hunter-gatherer diet as that would be impossible today.

"..it may well have been the case that the Mesolithic peoples of Europe really did not want to switch to an agricultural economy, but at some point they would have had to switch as their own hunter-gatherer economy would have ceased to be viable as they lose more land to this encroaching advancement of arable agriculture."

Hunter-gatherer societies that did fit this model could be considered to be the ultimate totalitarian organizations.