These peoples are, or were until recently, hunter-gatherers and so have also been the subject of intense research about all sorts of questions surrounding human evolution, including today by evolutionary psychologists. We would be wise to be sceptical about this though: living hunter-gatherers don’t represent a snapshot of a lost world, or stage of humanity’s evolution, as such studies often imply.
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