Philip Webre

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So, a story born in ancient cities beleaguered by too many people, and arguably about the dangers of urban overpopulation and the benefits of birth control, is adopted by the mostly nomadic ancient Semitic tribes who didn’t use wet nurses as often. And those tribespeople repurposed it as a story about urban wickedness (Noah and the ark), thereby generally screwing women for the next three thousand years.
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
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