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

A. Paleolithic foragers were prelinguistic.
B. Paleolithic foragers were not Homo sapiens.
C. The types of foraging vary so widely that few generalizations can be drawn.
D. There are no present-day foragers.
E. 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.


Answer: E

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