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The rule of thumb based into the brain by natural selection would not have been, Be nice to your kin and be nice to potential reciprocators. It would have been, Be nice to everybody, because everybody would have been included.

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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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