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As you read, consider the following questions:

  • What role has food played in the evolutionary history of the hominids?
  • What are the main subsistence patterns found in human societies?
  • What other cultural characteristics of a society might we infer from knowing that society's subsistence pattern?
  • Why might some societies have made the transition from collecting food to producing food?
  • Is there, in some way, more value in some subsistence patterns than in others?
  • How are some basic categories of economic behavior related to subsistence?





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