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Several types of evidence suggest our pre-agricultural (prehistoric) ancestors lived in groups where most mature individuals would have had several ongoing sexual relationships at any given time. Though often casual, these relationships were not random or meaningless. Quite the opposite: they reinforced crucial social ties holding these highly inte

Laughlin’s credo was simple: “To purify the breeding stock of the race at all costs.” As journalist Edwin Black notes in his 2003 book, War Against the Weak, Laughlin’s plan of attack was threefold: “sterilization, mass incarceration and sweeping immigration restrictions.” In furtherance of these goals, Laughlin created the imposingly named, feroci

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The adoptive father, Gallio, was a well-known orator, poet, and declaimer of Seneca the Elder’s generation, who had been a friend of the poet Ovid and who had been exiled to the island of Lesbos under Tiberius, though soon recalled. Perhaps the adoption improved the status of the Annaeus family in literary circles as well as their finances.