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Letter: Life or death

Published 30 October 2013

From Sue Macrae

The original motivation for gathering at sites such as Göbekli Tepe would surely have been for mating, to ensure genetic diversity. Organised religion would have been the bogeyman needed to keep all those raging hormones under some sort of control.
Wonga, Queensland, Australia

Issue no. 2941 published 2 November 2013

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