“But the tribes which figure in books as living entirely, that is, exclusively, by hunting never existed in reality; the yield of the hunt was far too precarious. At this stage, owing to the continual uncertainty of food supplies, cannibalism seems to have arisen, and was practiced from now onwards for a long time. The Australian aborigines and many of the Polynesians are still in this middle stage of savagery today.”
excerpt from Engels' "Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State"
Engels is now my lunchbreak reading because I'm soooo fuckign funny