When your life depends on split-second decisions, your frustration and impatience threshold necessarily tend to be low. Thom Hartmann is a progressive radio talk show host, author, and retired businessman who was born and grew up in Michigan. He does a great job explaining what he believes to be the evolutionary advantage of hunter children and the edge they have over us neurotypical people when it comes to creative skills.

Henry Harpending of the University of Utah reports that with this genetic mutation, "You probably do better in a context of aggressive competition.A genetic variant associated with ADHD has been found at higher frequency in more nomadic populations and those with more of a history of migration. This is, of course, partly due to the

They gradually moved west across what is now Europe and North Africa, and eventually across the Atlantic into North America. Ko further states that the decreased need for 'hyperfocus' was building the conditions favourable for human language.He does spend time talking about the high incidence of ADHD in prisons, outside of a very brief paragraph he avoids discussing the systemic reasons that people of color, and people in poverty are less likely to get treatment for ADHD, and more likely to have harsh sentences for crime. it was a decent audiobook but the arguments werent conclusive for me on ADHD and it seemed as if she backpedaled on some arguments of the hunter vs farmer dichotomy. If you or you know of someone who has ADHD, this book is for you-- it includes an interesting theory about ADHDers being the descendants of the Hunters in our former societies, something about which seems to make sense to me. Again, Hartmann offers a number to strategies for the Hunter to find ways to sleep in the current Farmer’s world, strategies often hypnotic in nature. The need for constant stimulation, impulsivity and ability to act in high risk situations would have made the hunter quite successful.