What We Can Learn from Traditional People
What can we learn from indigenous cultures, who still live the same way that everyone did thousands of years ago?
Geographer Jared Diamond points out that, for most of history, people lived in small groups as hunter-gatherers. Agriculture began 11,000 years ago, and state government is only half that old. But Diamond, who has spent years studying the tribes living in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, thinks we can still learn from traditional societies like these.
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