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Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.

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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
Scientist
Manhattan borough
New York City
Helen Fisher
Helen E Fisher
Death
Ostracism
Throughout
Indeed
Evolution

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