On: The Modern World Is Aging Your Brain

[robwwilliams]

It beats starvation. The Nuer had three modes in this order of preference:

1. Cattle grazing when all was good (migration = transhumant)

2. Fishing when possible, but more work and hard to synch with migrations of cattle

3. Farming only when really necessary

See: E. E. Evans-Pritchard classics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nuer