This article is wrong on so many fronts. If the writer’s purpose is to reinvent agriculture, trying to portray the hunter-gatherer economy as some kind of shang-ra-lai is the wrong way to do it.

In my part of the world and not too long ago, the Blackfoot aboriginals were the humans in this environment. It was a hard life. Life expectancy was 25. You were an elder at 40 — and your body was beat up by that time.