Emulating Our Wild Progenitors: A New Path - Arthur Haines

We want to believe that we are living at the pinnacle of human existence; that since hominins first walked on two legs, man has been marching toward our vision of modern civilization. But what if despite humanity's vast achievements, we left behind a way of life that not only served our species better, but actually defined us as a species? So posits my guest today, Arthur Haines , the author of the transformative new book A New Path: To Transcend the Great Forgetting Through Incorporating Ancestral Practices Into Contemporary Living . The book, and today's conversation, is centered around a remarkable premise (first conceived with Daniel Vitalis ): that modern-day humans have become a domesticated sub-species of Homo sapiens, our once-wild progenitors. Our divergence from our biologically normal way of life has not only de-evolved us, it is at the root of our current epidemic of ill health and environmental degradation. But given that we can’t turn back the clock to live as indigenous hunter-gatherers, where do we go from here? Arthur has spent a lifetime ruminating on that question, as a botanist, taxonomist, forager and ancestral skills mentor who runs the Delta Institute of Natural History in Canton, ME. In A New Path , he offers revolutionary answers. Here, we talk about the book that's being called "the bible of the rewilding movement," and putting theory into practice with Wilder Waters , the neo-aboriginal community Arthur and his family are creating on 150 acres of protected forest in the woods of central Maine.

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Emulating Our Wild Progenitors: A New Path - Arthur Haines is an episode from Uncivilize by Jennifer Grayson.

This episode is 1:05:24 long.

This episode was published on Apr 2, 2018.

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