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ADHD: Hunter in a Farmer's World with Thom Hartmann

"Author Thom Hartmann has laid out a controversial but appealing theory that the characteristics known today as ADHD were vitally important in early hunting societies." — TIME Magazine cover story, July 18, 1994

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ADHD: Hunter in a Farmer's World with Thom Hartmann

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