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Bill Bryson

“It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five times as much viatmin C as the average person today.”

Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
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