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Hunter–gatherers have less famine than agriculturalists

1 Jan 2014

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The idea that hunter-gatherer societies experience more frequent famine than societies with other modes of subsistence is pervasive in the literature on human evolution. This idea underpins, for example, the 'thrifty genotype hypothesis'. This hypothesis proposes that our hunter-gatherer ancestors were adapted to frequent famines, and that these once adaptive 'thrifty genotypes' are now responsible for the...

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PMID: 24402714
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0853

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