Claims / C-NH380BPG0C
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Accumulated local know-how beats intelligence plus money: funded, experienced expedition teams floundered where one woman living on her ancestors' practices survived 18 years alone.
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Despite the intelligence we acquire from having such big brains, we can't survive in the kinds of environments so commonly inhabited by our hunter-gatherer ancestors over our evolutionary history.
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One lone woman, equipped with only the cumulative know-how of her ancestors, survived for 18 years, whereas fully provisioned and well-financed teams of experienced explorers struggled in Australia, Texas, and the Arctic.
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