This article successfully supports an intriguing assertion that hunter-gathering societies existed on a fitness plateau, and for humanity to achieve improvements upon that quality of life it was necessary to cross a deep valley. To extend this to making the claim that human beings were and are universally better off as hunter-gatherers than they are today is absurd.

Publishing this article in a magazine, with later distribution online, is a very special kind of irony given that hunter-gatherer societies rarely if ever developed writing systems.