From: Sylvia Morscher (max@sentex.net)
Date: Wed May 15 2002 - 12:48:23 MDT
Michael M. Butler wrote:
> From: "Michael M. Butler" <butler@comp-lib.org>
> Subject: Re: Frontier House - A Luddite Show?
>
> Mike Lorrey wrote:
> > Name one 'relatively primitive' population
> > that is vegetarian exclusively.
>
> I think the Little People in Africa come darned close, because fruit etc. is
> plentiful and monkeys and birds are hard to catch. They might get some sort of
> piglet thing every so often. But that's a special niche, as you have noted,
> and I suspect they're little people for a sheaf of evolutionary biology
> reasons that include reduced caloric consumption.
>
>
> - --
> butler a t comp - lib . o r g
> I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization.
> Sometimes I forget.
>
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um... are you referring to the "Kalahari Bushmen" (sorry i don't know how
to reproduce clicks in ascii so i can't refer to them by a correct name)?
don't they live in a _desert_, and have very advanced hunting and
gathering and navigation technology, considering that they survive in an
environment that defeats most other people?
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