Pastoral nomads move around, too, but not as much as hunter-gatherers.
Until 10,000 years ago, however, most people on Earth were hunter-gatherers.
In any event there is increasing interest in and recognition of the variability and historicity of hunter-gatherer societies and groups.
Since fairness most likely first arose in relatively small groups of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, the assumption of perfect monitoring is not far-fetched after all.
Where these associations might be implied, it is the individual/social opposition that is the significant one, not the hunter-gatherer/farmer one.
In section 4, the dreams of hunter-gatherer populations and animals are considered in the light of the threat simulation theory.
However, among none of the seventeenthcentury thinkers here was there a clear-cut equation of individual with hunter-gatherer, or collective with farmer.
