Joseph Henrich

Here's an interesting fact about hunters.

So anthropologists have studied hunters, hunter-gathering societies in different places.

And the physical peak that at least males have is in their early 20s, right?

That's when they run the fastest.

They got the best eyesight.

But the best hunters in the community are 36 to 40, right?

They're not as fast as those guys, but they just know the track.

They know the animals.

They know exactly what to do in these differences.

And then hunting skill begins to decline because basically the physicality of things begins to catch up.

And so there's this kind of cycle.

And at 18, young hunters aren't even producing enough food to feed themselves.

So it's not until they get into their 20s that they're actually in surplus and bringing food home for everybody else.

So there's just – and you need to know hundreds at least animals.

You need to know animal behavior.

You got to be able to spot tracks and spore.

And there's just – we're just very knowledge dependent in terms of our hunting and gathering.

Yeah.

Well, so I think we offloaded a lot of stuff into culture.

So in one of my Lost European Explorers, there's a case where they're in Australia and they have camels.