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Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

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Keith Henson
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 1
Engineer
Writer
the United States of America
Howard Keith Henson
Evolution
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