The health of a society

Paul Shepard

“The health of a society is the measure of its freedom from stress, individual suffering, psychopathology, tyranny and ecological dysfunction as a result of straying from [our] basic ancestral form. The greater the degree to which a person or society conforms to our Paleolithic progenitors and their environmental context the healthier she, he, they and it will be.”

Paul Shepard, Coming Home to the Pleistocene