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Introducing Genetics Unzipped

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Why Do We Eat Our Kids?

In evolutionary terms, your job is to get as many copies of your genes into the next generation. It's only fair we also look at parents eating their kids - or filial cannibalism. Sometimes it's an honest mistake. But other times it's a bit like the lifeboat strategy where killing some of your kids is actually the best way to help the others thrive.

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