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The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Pramala Natison is a professor of history at Barnard College and co-director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women. She says humans couldn't have survived as a species if only their biological mothers could care for them. The very thing that propelled our species into being like the most dominant, social primate on the planet is the fact that we relied on other people to help raise our children.