I get that ports were historically very important and fishing is a source of food but none of that would have been relevant prior to the invention of boats.
I would think tens of thousands of years ago, the beach would be a place with no drinkable water, very little options for shelter, and very little options for food, yet we are drawn to it… why?
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Humans are extremely well adapted for gathering shellfish. (Which were probably a lot more abundant before there were humans everywhere messing up the environment.) There’s an “aquatic ape” hypothesis that claims this is was a massive factor in human development, though most anthropologists find this unconvincing.
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