Why they kill their newborns
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The ancestrial practice of neonaticide may have been a hard choice made to increase survival of older children. Recent cases of newborns murdered by middleclass white girls in the US may not fit this pattern. But they could also have been responding to a signal of natural selection from the past
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
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ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 1997
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Doggerel
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Funny pictures of many types of dogs are accompanied by short, witty poems written from the canine viewpoint, in Valerie Schaff's and Roy Blount, Jr.'s 'If Only You Knew How Much I Smell You: True Portraits of Dogs', 1998, Bulfinch/LittleBrown publishers.
Publication Name: Country Journal
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 0898-6355
Year: 2001
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Under the big top
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Fashion shows have turned into a celebrity circus peopled by entertainers and supermodels. For one journalist, friends blessed with ordinary features became 'more beautiful' after watching models parade on the runways of New York and Paris.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
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ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 1995
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