> You completely missed the point of my post. It would be far easier for an modern man to learn to live in the Outback than an Stone Age tribesman to learn to live in a modern society.
I don’t think I missed the point of your post at all. My response is that a modern man would not have the luxury of alot of time to learn how to live in the Outback. Dropped into that environment s/he would surely die after a very short time.
So in many ways your experiment fails, based upon practical constraints. The Aborigine subsists day-to-day in a “school of hard knocks” that would preclude your university student from studying there.
As to Stone Age tribesmen, one can look to the Maori as excellent examples. It took very little time for them to adapt to Europeans and assimilate, to some degree, into modern society. There are plenty of Maori in universities, and more than plenty have degrees.