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...Pontius says the hunter-gatherers saw danger lurking everywhere. "[It is] also their animalistic belief system," she says. "For them, there are evil spirits in everything they see around them...
...formulate her theory, Pontius gave two spatial tests to various modern hunter-gatherer tribes and compared groups who were surrounded by enemies with those who lived securely in large areas with no threat of attack...
...Pontius gave her subjects a face-drawing and a block design test. In the block-design test, subjects were asked to copy a geometric pattern shown to them...
...face-drawing test, Pontius says she asked her subjects to draw a person facing forward. She then looked to see if they portrayed the intra-pattern facial relations correctly...
...testing perfection but representation [of] what they remember in their mind," Pontius says...