Question

The percentage of a hunter-gatherer society’s diet provided by hunting versus gathering was mostly determined by _______.
a. the climate
b. the types of prey
c. hunting skill
d. the size of the human population

Answer 1

To some extend all of these factors influenced the percentage of meat in the diet, but the most important was the climate. Climate determined how much prey was available and what kind of pray that was: whether it was hard or easy to hunt down - this means that the climate influenced the other options too.

Answer 2

the answer is a- the climate