hunter-gatherer
noun
hunt·er-gath·er·er
ˈhən-tər-ˈga-t͟hər-ər 
: a member of a culture in which food is obtained by hunting, fishing, and foraging rather than by agriculture or animal husbandry
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The study reinforced general perception regarding the positive correlation between economic development and obesity, and the opposite for hunter-gatherer and farming societies.
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Rachel Raposas, People.com, 25 July 2025
The people involved ran the spectrum from hunter-gatherers and farming populations with low obesity rates, to people in more sedentary jobs in places like Europe and the U.S., where obesity is widespread.
—Maria Godoy, NPR, 24 July 2025
But the study builds on existing evidence that over time, mutations in these pathogens helped strengthen the immune systems of the nomads that were among the first to get sick, while more stagnant farmers and hunter-gatherers succumbed to the new diseases.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2025
Anyone expecting a wide range of energy expenditures, with hunter-gatherers and farmer-herders at the high end and deskbound American office workers trailing well behind, would be wrong.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2025
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Rachel Raposas, People.com, 25 July 2025
The people involved ran the spectrum from hunter-gatherers and farming populations with low obesity rates, to people in more sedentary jobs in places like Europe and the U.S., where obesity is widespread.
—Maria Godoy, NPR, 24 July 2025
But the study builds on existing evidence that over time, mutations in these pathogens helped strengthen the immune systems of the nomads that were among the first to get sick, while more stagnant farmers and hunter-gatherers succumbed to the new diseases.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2025
Anyone expecting a wide range of energy expenditures, with hunter-gatherers and farmer-herders at the high end and deskbound American office workers trailing well behind, would be wrong.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2025
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