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Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

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Lawrence M. Krauss
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: May 27
Astronomer
Astrophysicist
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Theoretical Physicist
University Teacher
New York City
New York
Lawrence Krauss
Larry Krauss
Lawrence Maxwell Krauss
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