Using modern hunter-gatherers to infer about early only works if at least (a) modern hunter-gatherers represent an unbiased sample of humanity, and (b) modern hunter-gatherers act in ways similar to the behavior of early . Both of these are false, leading to the problem of whether we can draw conclusions about early from modern hunter-gatherers.
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