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