Hunter-gatherer health (Pollan)
December 12th, 2007 | Published in Health, Agriculture, History, Quotes
Anthropologists estimate that typical hunter-gatherers worked at feeding themselves no more than seventeen hours a week, and were far more robust and long-lived than agriculturists, who have only in the last century or two regained the physical stature and longevity of their Paleolithic ancestors.
–Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma (2006), p. 279