For anyone wanting to know a good strat, try the One Man Army stategy.
Bum rush tier 1 research on clay and stick or thorn while exploring the surrounding area. You want to craft a spear (preferably 3 spears) to fight every mealybug to extinction. Once you have explored enough of the area to uncover all of the berry bushes and then some, start reproducing with your youngest sproot and just watch for incoming mealybugs. There are usually two large groups of mealies in every map. Prevent them from destroying any of your crops if possible. Losing 3 or 4 berry bushes is inevitable, but while they are munching on them, they are easy kills. After you have killed all the mealybugs, let your old die out and finish laying your egg.
I forgot to mention that you should let your youngest sproot do all the hunting and research while the oldest does the exploring so hunting traits can carry over. Also your food supply now comes from all the berry bushes you saved.
Get as much clay as possible and just start spamming pots, I like to use a grid to organize everything. When your new one is born, start teaching him the ways of the stick and clay, DO NOT research anything other than these for now at least. Research does not carry over through generations, you would have to teach the new generation every time which can be tedious.
Once you have enough pots to satisfy your inventory needs, start exploring the entire map. This should take one generation to do. Always try to explore during or right before a rain storm. Start reproducing at age 40. This should give you leeway so by the time your old dies out, the new generation will have 1-3 inventory slots and will have been taught about the stick and the clay.
Now you are free to base build and gather all the materials you want. I would do research last since that is the most time consuming.