Marginal environments often sustain hunting-and-gathering societies where agricultural societies cannot exist because __________
A. the resource and energy demands of agricultural societies are low
B. foraging societies have lower resource and energy requirements
C. marginal environments have always sustained large populations of foragers
D. most agricultural societies have become industrialized
Answer: B
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