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Everyday life and its variability influenced human evolution at least as much as rare activities like big-game hunting

  • Written by Cara Wall-Scheffler, Professor and Chair of Biology at Seattle Pacific University and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington
Everyday life and its variability influenced human evolution at least as much as rare activities like big-game huntingCollecting water and caring for kids are daily necessities.Three Lions/Hulton Archive via Getty Images

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