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Keep in mind that for a very large chunk of human history, human society was focused solely on hunting and gathering. That skill set and the practical knowledge of the land that evolved was extremely specialized, because it had to be. When modern anthropologists study remaining hunter-gather societies, they often find that those people are really, really good at finding calories because they would have otherwise disappeared a very long time ago. And of course they are. If you and your forefathers had spent hundreds or thousands of years hunting and gathering the relative same areas, your society would build an incredible stores memory of which places to fish, what plants are edible or usable, and which animals are good and bad for eating. And that is the large part of the reason why the average layman would be terrible at surviving in the wilderness. Without those practiced skills and stored knowledge of how to survive in certain landscapes, no way are you going to succeed in the long term. Finally, there's the problem of recognizing that hunter-gather societies managed their lands to maximize the output of calories that were available. The reason why you find circular religious faiths in hunter-gather societies (those that remain) that emphasize a revered role for nature is that that religion is hedge against greedy or overproductive land use. In essence, the cultural practices that arose from these hunter-gather peoples is that which is most harmonious with their land use. If it wasn't, that society would've starved to death a long time ago.
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