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Chapter 9: Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short

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The End of the Younger Dries

A hunter-gatherer human burns the exact same amount of calories in a day as an average modern human who works in an office and drives a pre-us. "I think I'd rather spend calories on anxiety than on running away from a saber-tooth tiger," Leaf says. A little while ago, he got visited by not one, but two future versions of himself. He has sworn off wondering about how things could be different.

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