Matt Bango

“If a forager band split once every forty years and its splinter group migrated to a new territory sixty miles to the east, the distance from East Africa to China would have been covered in about 10,000 years.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Sapiens did not forage only for food and materials. They foraged for knowledge as well.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The hunter-gatherer way of life differed significantly from region to region and from season to season, but on the whole foragers seem to have enjoyed a more comfortable and rewarding lifestyle than most of the peasants, shepherds, labourers and office clerks who followed in their footsteps.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Homo sapiens drove to extinction about half of the planet’s big beasts long before humans invented the wheel, writing, or iron tools.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind