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"But the fact is that attacks by strangers are so rare as to be practically nonexistent. If your child is assaulted, the perpetrator is almost certainly a relative."

Maybe that statement is true in today's world. But for tens of thousands of years, while our brains evolved, I would guess attacks from strangers were a lot more common.



The causation implied here is unlikely at best. More likely might be that until the last century no one had to deal with numbers large enough to need these kinds of statistics.




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