enslavement. We are bad animals Richard. Even among the original paleos. The theory is that human sapiens eliminated neanderthal man in the very first act of ethnic cleansing. So imagining a hunter gatherer idyll is a bit naive. Yet should we take care of ourselves physically and not eat twinkies? You bet. Congratulations on the book deal though. Despite what I perceive as fallacy in your historical analysis, your practical recommendations will do many people a world of good. The hypothesis that humans wiped out neanderthal is pretty much without any evidence. It made sense in the context of the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries. There is more evidence that we made love not war with the neanderthal. Anthropological books are not hard to find but can be pricey, even in very hard conditions hunter gatherers tend to get on better than agricultural peoples. Enslavement (unheard of), theft and rape occur in far, far lower incidences and murder rates are also lower than agricultural peoples. Indeed while murder rates are often reported as high among hunter gatherers "similar to new york city" we have to remember that most hunter gatherers have virtually no health care and use really dangerous weapons. "manslaughter""attempted murder" and even "GBH" are all likely to be murder in a foraging society. Life probably wasn't idyllic and a foraging lifestyle is not proof against terrible violence (Mesolithic Scandinavia) but war, enslavement theft and other problems really got going in an endemic and widespread manner