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Food gathering and agriculture of the primitive human .
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Hunting and gathering was humanity's first and most successful adaptation, occupying at least 90 percent of human history.[2] Following the invention of agriculture, hunter-gatherers who did not change were displaced or conquered by farming or pastoralist groups in most parts of the world.[3] However the division between the two is no longer presumed to be a fundamental marker in human history, and there is not necessarily a hierarchy which places agriculture and industry at the top as a goal to be reached.[4]
Only a few contemporary societies are classified as hunter-gatherers, and many supplement their foraging activity with horticulture or pastoralism.[5][6] Contrary to common misconception, hunter-gatherers are mostly well-fed, rather than starving.[7]
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A hunter-gatherer is a nomadic[1] human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals). Hunter-gatherer societies stand in contrast to agricultural societies, which rely mainly on domesticated species, although the boundaries between the two are not distinct.
Pygmy hunter-gatherers in the Congo Basin in August 2014
Hunting and gathering was humanity's first and most successful adaptation, occupying at least 90 percent of human history.[2] Following the invention of agriculture, hunter-gatherers who did not change were displaced or conquered by farming or pastoralist groups in most parts of the world.[3] However the division between the two is no longer presumed to be a fundamental marker in human history, and there is not necessarily a hierarchy which places agriculture and industry at the top as a goal to be reached.[4]
Only a few contemporary societies are classified as hunter-gatherers, and many supplement their foraging activity with horticulture or pastoralism.[5][6] Contrary to common misconception, hunter-gatherers are mostly well-fed, rather than starving.[7]