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  • Improvements in food-gathering could have been involved, suggested Professor Chris Stringer of London's Natural History Museum.

    Grandparents were key to prehistoric man's survival 2011

  • They are the benign hunting and food-gathering groups, though due to technology their environmental impact may still be damaging.

    Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010

  • They are the benign hunting and food-gathering groups, though due to technology their environmental impact may still be damaging.

    Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010

  • The number of people any environment can support is a technology-dependent question, and cannot be answered without reference to whatever technology for food-gathering, sanitation, housing, etc is being applied.

    Abortion and sympathy, men and women 2010

  • They are the benign hunting and food-gathering groups, though due to technology their environmental impact may still be damaging.

    Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010

  • As the European settlers moved westward, bringing the harness and the plow, which enabled them to turn under the buffalo grass of the plains and replace it with crops that yielded a larger surplus, they relentlessly drove the food-gathering Indians from their ancestral homeland into less and less satisfactory areas.

    Energy and Society~ Chapter 2~ Organic Energy and the Low-Energy Society 2009

  • Zwick doesn't allow a whole lot of emotional range here, and yet oddly enough he seems to want the story's central conflict to be between the vengeful, violent, warrior-like Zus and the more peaceful, reserved Tuvia, who prefers community building and food-gathering to making war.

    Defiance Ed Howard 2009

  • Priests and other social functionaries who gather no food cannot contribute enough to food-gathering groups to offset the energy lost in supporting them.

    Energy and Society~ Chapter 2~ Organic Energy and the Low-Energy Society 2009

  • Many of the pre-Columbian food-gathering tribes were confined to areas in which food raisers were unable to operate.

    Energy and Society~ Chapter 2~ Organic Energy and the Low-Energy Society 2009

  • Insufficient consideration has been given to the unexpected and unpredictable long-term effects that such primitive food-gathering practices engender.

    Marine biodiversity 2007

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