If. . . men were reared under precisely the same conditions as hivebees,
there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like
the worker-bees, think it a sacred duty to kill their brothers, and mothers
would strive to kill their fertile daughters; and no one would think of interfering.
Charles Darwin
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