Despite differences arising from environmental variation, all foraging economies have shared one essential feature:
A. their reliance on welfare supplied by state-level societies.
B. their willingness to test out new food-producing technologies to see if they are any better than what they are used to.
C. their emphasis on devising new forms of organic pesticides.
D. their interest in developing irrigation technologies to control sources of water.
E. their reliance on available natural resources for their subsistence, rather than controlling the reproduction of plants and animals.
Answer: E
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