⚠️Trigger warning for sensitive young men⚠️
Few more good ones
Aug 31, 2024 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
In 1966 a Harvard Anthropologist named Richard Lee who worked with the !Kung bushman organized a conference titled "Man the Hunter" which spawned myths about hunter-gatherers based on overgeneralizations, ideology, and lies that have perpetuated until today
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The “Bushman model” which arose from this conference claims that HG are egalitarian, low fertility, not territorial, peaceful, dependent on plants, work little, live in small mobile groups, share widely to non-kin, and women produce more food and have some political power