How many acres would a person need to go feral?

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

I read an article a while back that postulated that large coastal clams fueled much of the early expansion of hominids north along the African coast. Apparently they were calorie-rich and plentiful, and it's easy to hunt clams.

It makes sense, really. You would be most successful if you had a reliable, stationary, nutritious food source. Those clams are going to be there for you almost anytime you need them. If you are spending all of your time running around hunting big, fast, potentially dangerous animals your chance for injury and failure rate is going to be higher. You would have a shorter life expectancy and probably less time available for finding females (clam hunting of a different sort!) and supporting offspring.