Why do anthropologists question the idea that present-day foragers can be compared to Paleolithic foragers?

A. There are no present-day foragers.
B. The types of foraging vary so widely that few generalizations can be drawn.
C. Present-day foragers have been in contact with food-producing and industrialized societies for long periods of time and all live within nation-states that inevitably affect their livelihood.
D. Paleolithic foragers were pre-linguistic.
E. Paleolithic foragers were not Homo sapiens.


Answer: C

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