We don't know everything about the era that shaped our bodies, there are a few contradicting narratives:
One being that we were mainly scavengers during the time that our brains grew to this size, especially savoring the marrow of the large bones of the large animals that used to roam the earth before we finished them off and had to look for other sources of highly nutritious foodstuffs. [1]
Another (albeit questioned) is that we hunted prey by running them to exhaustion, so called persistence hunting - a far cry from "waiting for deer to pass by" [2].
Some do argue that the preagricultural societies seemed to have plenty of leisure however [3], so you might be right :-).
But the larger point is if we would be mentally more healthy if we stuck to the old ways of hunting mammoths - or if we are first and foremost adaptable ... I guess my penny is on the latter, within reason.
> the larger point is if we would be mentally more healthy if we stuck to the old ways of hunting mammoths
Certainly, if me and my buddies could hunt a whole mammoth our entire tribe could afford to do nothing for a month, as meat lasts a while in cold latitudes.
Sadly, nowadays one can't work very hard for a week and ask the boss to take the rest of the month off.
We don't know everything about the era that shaped our bodies, there are a few contradicting narratives:
One being that we were mainly scavengers during the time that our brains grew to this size, especially savoring the marrow of the large bones of the large animals that used to roam the earth before we finished them off and had to look for other sources of highly nutritious foodstuffs. [1]
Another (albeit questioned) is that we hunted prey by running them to exhaustion, so called persistence hunting - a far cry from "waiting for deer to pass by" [2].
Some do argue that the preagricultural societies seemed to have plenty of leisure however [3], so you might be right :-).
But the larger point is if we would be mentally more healthy if we stuck to the old ways of hunting mammoths - or if we are first and foremost adaptable ... I guess my penny is on the latter, within reason.
[1] https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/evidence-f...
[2] https://undark.org/2019/10/03/persistent-myth-persistence-hu...
[3] https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/for-95-percent-of-human...