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Compared with farmers, hunter-gatherers led a more leisurely life. Modern anthropologists who have spent time with surviving hunter-gatherer groups report that gathering food only accounts for a small proportion of their time — far less than would be required to produce the same quantity of food via farming. Kung Bushmen of the Kalahari, for example, typically spend twelve to nineteen hours a week collecting food, and the Hazda nomads of Tanzania spend less than fourteen hours. 2That leaves a lot of time free for leisure activities, socializing, and so on. 3The people take full advantage of their leisure time, developing new agricultural techniques and applying them to farming. 4When asked by an anthropologist why his people had not adopted farming, one Bushman replied, "Why should we plant, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world? " 5In effect, hunter-gatherers work two days a week and have five-day weekends.

When my daughter, Isabella, was five years old, we were living in Washington, D. One day, we were volunteering at Children of Mine, a center for children in need. The day before, we had celebrated her fifth birthday with a cake, presents, balloons, and a birthday party. By chance, at the center that day there was a little girl also having her fifth birthday. Her entire birthday celebration 1was consisted of a chocolate chip cookie with a candle. I remember 2to watch my daughter from across the room, her eyes 3welling with tears. Something clicked for her, something that I could not have taught her. When we returned home, Isabella rushed to her room, collected all the presents she had got for her birthday, and told me that she wanted to take them to the little girl. Now it's not as if Isabella was suddenly transformed into Mother Teresa - she 4had many moments of selfishness since then. But it was a profound moment, 5which impact will always be with her.

Even an extinct language can be brought back to life if the conditions are right. There must be people who want the language back. Also, there must be written or audio-recorded material of the language in some form. This has happened with an Aboriginal language of South Australia called Kaurna. Its last native speaker died in 1929, but in the 1980s a group of people decided that they wanted their language back. "The language isn't dead," the leader of the group said, "it's only sleeping." " Fortunately, material survived from the nineteenth century, so that a linguist was able to make a fresh description and help the Kaurna people start learning the language again. It's taught in schools now, and some day, perhaps, some children will start learning it as their mother tongue.