This is the fourth time I've started the game tonight, everybody kept dying because I ran out of food.
Each of the first three times I stared the game, I drug adults over to the robe first, and always one became chief. This made it bad, because of five adults, one was a nursing mother, then one a chief and that left three, one farmer, one builder and one researcher, thing went too slow as it seemed that every time I'd leave the game and come back, my nursing mother had a new baby.
So this fourth time I started the game, I tried the two young children with the robe, since neither of them could wear it, I'm waiting until I get a little further along in the game before I try for a chief. Though I will try the new baby when it's no longer nursing.
In fact I started with two researchers, one farmer and one builder, waited for everybody to become adept at their jobs, then changed them around, that way I can get everybody adept at their jobs. You need three adept builders for one project and three adept farmers for another project. After I do those two projects, I'll let everybody start becoming masters.