forager

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“It’s probably a lot more ubiquitous than we understood,” says co-author Bruce Winterhalder, a behavioral ecologist at UC Davis and pioneering scholar of forager theory.

From Science Magazine • May 12, 2024

“Once you’ve bit down on a fresh muscadine, juice and pulp bursting onto your tongue, table grapes will seem flavorless,” says Betsy Harris, a forager living in northern Florida.

From Salon • Apr. 2, 2024

Haas investigates human behavior in forager societies of the past to better understand human behavior in the present.

From Science Daily • Jan. 24, 2024

A forager has found a mushroom so rare that she will not share its location for fear of it being damaged.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2023

Secondly, modern forager societies have survived mainly in areas with difficult climatic conditions and inhospitable terrain, ill-suited for agriculture.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari