Evolution Can't Explain Your Grandma

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There's a really interesting idea in anthropology called the grandmother hypothesis, that basically says the reason we have grandmas has to do with what makes us unique as a species. But there's a huge problem with the idea that it's taken decades of research for us to unveil.

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