We know, however, that contemporary hunter-gatherer societies control their population in a variety of ways.

然而，众所周知，当代的采集狩猎者以各种方式控制其人口。

FOR most of man’s existence he has been a hunter-gatherer.

自人类出现以来，大部分时间是作为采集狩猎者。

There were a few disadvantages to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

狩猎采集生活也有一些不利之处。

Small, family-based groups came together, forming hunter-gatherer tribes.

以家庭为基础的小型团体走到了一起，形成捕猎者-采集者部落。

Here is where I think we have lots to learn from hunter-gatherer societies.

我认为我们可以从狩猎-采集者的社会中学到很多。

Research into hunter-gatherer cultures has contributed to this new understanding.

对狩猎文化的研究加深了对这种新观点的理解。

A child in New York might pretend to be an airplane; a hunter-gatherer child will not.

纽约的小孩儿可能假装自己是个飞机；一个采集狩猎人的孩子可能就不会。

For most of their existence, humans lived in small, egalitarian hunter-gatherer bands.

远古人类大部分生存在小而平等的团队里依靠采集和狩猎为生。

Men and women in these hunter-gatherer tribes were the most equal they have ever been.

这些狩猎采集部落内男女的平等程度前无古人，后无来者。

Woman is the gatherer of vegetables, the salad eater, the nurturer, the homemaker, the cupcake-maker.

女人是蔬菜的采集者、吃沙拉的人、养育者、家庭主妇、纸杯蛋糕之母。

The most important gatherer of personal information in the country is the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

在国内最重要的个人信息采集者是美国联邦调查局。

The sensation of working on a theorem, he says, can be like being “a hunter and gatherer of mathematical concepts.”

他说，专注于一个定理的感觉，就像“一个猎人，一个数学概念的收集者。”

It was pretty clear we were dealing with a hunter-gatherer site," Peters says. "It's been the same every year since.

很明显我们正在研究的是一个捕猎者的遗址，”皮特斯说道，“从那以后每一年都能发现相似数量的骨头。”

Scientists have found that modern-day people are about 10% smaller and shorter than their hunter-gatherer forebears.

据英国《星期日泰晤士报》6月12日报道，科学家发现，与依靠捕猎和采集为生的祖先相比，现代人类的身材缩小了大约10%。

We're fairly well adapted for life in a hunter-gatherer society, but evolution has not caught up to the way we live now.

我们生理上是相当适应那种狩猎—采集的社会模式，但是进化还是没能赶我们现在的生活方式。

Original paragraph: But there is strong evidence that in hunter-gatherer societies women's subordination to men did not exist.

有有力的证据证实，在以捕猎采集为生的社会，并没有出现女生从属于男性。

I think that is the lesson we can take from current hunter-gatherer groups, people who still live in a way that our ancestors did.

我认为这是一个我们可以从狩猎者群体中吸取到的教训，那些狩猎者依旧向我们的祖先那样生活。

Pearl, whose activity of spirit never flagged, had been at no loss for amusement while her mother talked with the old gatherer of herbs.

珠儿的精神从来十足，当她母亲同那采药老人谈话时，她一直玩得挺带劲。

As the hunter part of a hunter-gatherer society, men were faced with complex, life-threatening problems that needed solving on a daily basis.

在狩猎采集社会，作为猎人的男性每天面临复杂的，甚至有生命威胁的问题。

The Jomon hunter-gatherer way of life, enriched and transformed by the making of Jomon pottery, didn't radically change for over 14, 000 years.

绳纹陶器的制作，丰富与改造了绳纹人这种狩猎与采集的生活方式；而后在一万四千年的漫漫岁月中，一切没有多大的改变。

Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit.

阿摩司对亚玛谢说，我原不是先知，也不是先知的门徒(原文作儿子)。我是牧人，又是修理桑树的。

It would be wrong of me not to mention how Marcus (traditional English gent turned hunter-gatherer) had felt very successful after his fishing trip.

我不得不提一下，麦克斯这个由传统英国绅士变成的渔夫在外出捕鱼后是如何有成就感的。

I had seen him put it into the cupboard, and was able therefore to find it and get it out, looking at the thin, grief-struck face of the tax-gatherer.

我看到老头方才把威士忌放在碗橱里，于是找到酒，把它取了出来。

In the journal Science, Kim Hill and others point to evidence that people in hunter-gatherer societies actually live with people who are not relatives.

在《科学》杂志，吉姆·希尔等人搜集证据证明，人类在狩猎社会实际上同与自己无亲属关系的人居住在一起。

Scientists have shown that females are drawn to pinks and reds and men to blues and greens – and they believe the explanation lies our hunter-gatherer past.

科学家宣称女性更喜欢红粉色系，男性倾心于蓝绿色系，而且他们将这种喜好归功于我们狩猎采集的过去。

Our species began to depart from our natural hunter-gatherer lifestyle as recently as 10,000 years ago - too short to measure on the evolutionary timescale.

我们这个物种只不过在大约10万年前才与我们自然的狩猎—采集生活方式告别——这在进化的时间尺度上短到无法测量的程度。