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At what age would a human child be capable of surviving in the wild?

Simon Ritchie
Leatherhead, Surrey, UK

Age isn’t the issue. It really depends on how wild the area is. Members of hunter-gatherer communities have to be very skilled to survive in their environment. People without those skills wouldn’t last long in such places without help.

When the fictional was stranded on a desert island, he had a shipload of useful equipment, including food, woodworking tools, a gun and ammunition. Without all that, he would have starved fairly quickly.

Lucy Irvine’s book (later made…