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Re:Why smart people are better off with fewer friends by quanticle on Friday March 18, 2016 @07:51PM (#11316257)
The actual happiness of hunter-gatherers is seriously in dispute. It's by no means a settled anthropological question.

For a useful perspective from the other side, you might want to read Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature.

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Re:Why smart people are better off with fewer friends by xyzzy4 on Friday March 18, 2016 @07:58PM (#11316297)
This is just my speculation but I bet it depended on wild animal populations, rainfalls vs droughts, peacefulness of neighboring tribes, etc. I don't think you can generalize on the happiness of all hunter gatherers.
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