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Re:Why smart people are better off with fewer friends by mchahn on Friday March 18, 2016 @08:06PM (#11316339)
> primitive cultures live[d] as long as we do

BTW, an extremely minor point: I intentionally used present-tense because primitive cultures still exist.

Re:Why smart people are better off with fewer friends by thaumasiotes on Monday March 21, 2016 @12:34AM (#11326265)
Well, any culture existing today is by definition a modern culture. But, more substantively:

There are no cultures today which are comparable to primitive cultures of the past. One nice point I've seen made is that when hunter-gatherers were the rule, they could live on arable land. After the advent of agriculture, obviously, that became impossible.