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Science 19 October 1973:
Vol. 182. no. 4109, pp. 301 - 303
DOI: 10.1126/science.182.4109.301
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Crowding among Hunter-Gatherers: The !Kung Bushmen

Patricia Draper 1

1 Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87106

Highly crowded living conditions exist among the !Kung Bushmen, hunter-gatherers who live on the edges of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. The !Kung appear to be crowded by choice, and biological indicators of stress are absent. Data indicate that residential crowding alone does not produce symptoms of pathological stress.


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