cultural universal
Americannoun
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But “your goal is not to maximize reproduction, whatever may be said of your genes” and evolutionary arguments can’t explain our enormous societal emphasis on youthfulness, which has been far from a cultural universal, across cultures or history.
From The Guardian
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