to track down the origin of the honey guide story i spoke with nutritional anthropologist alyssa crittenden at the university of nevada las vegas who made a remarkable discovery about the people of tanzania. a group still living a traditional hunting and gathering lifestyle and the very landscape the odds are honey guides. this has been known for decades. but alyssa was the first person to ask a basic question how much honeydew they eat. and the answer was surprising. it wasn't just in the occasional sweet treats. they all rested. they look for it every single day. over the course of a year honey made up fully 15% of the harvard diet. it was far higher than during certain seasons. and higher still for many of the men. they would eat quite a bit of it before they came back to camp. that is interesting in and of itself. but the idea becomes truly powerful and an evolutionary context. alyssa and her colleagues and pose another question. what our ancestors survive in roughly the same way in the same landscape after all even australia. if we been chasing after bee's is a very beginning. they coe