His previous three books were explorations of the psychology of a small but prominent group of people with powerful matriarchs and lots and lots of nannies: the British royal family.

鉴于他先前的三本著作探讨的是一群小众杰出且有权有势的女家长们的心理状态，那如今这本《天赋异禀：揭密我们行为背后的原因》大概也没什么价值可言。

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I want to flip back to text for a moment before I return to talk about a whole contradictory set of methodologies, or methodologies that pull in another direction. But first I want to get us up to the patriarchs and matriarchs where we're going to be starting off on Monday.

回到谈论一整套相互冲突，截然相反的,研究方法之前，我想跳回到经文部分,首先，我希望你们关注一下宗教创始人的部分,这点我们会在周一开始讨论。

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Also according to the Nuzi texts, if a wife is barren, she is to provide a maidservant as a substitute to bear her husband's children. And this is something that happens with three out of the four matriarchs, who are afflicted with infertility: Sarah, Rachel and Leah.

根据Nuzi文件，如果妻子不能生育,那作为替代她就要让自己的女仆为自己的丈夫生养后代,女族长中四分之三都会出现这种情况,她们饱受不孕的折磨，撒拉、拉结和利亚都是这样。

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Perhaps the most evolutionarily significant finding, though, is the age at which the matriarchs in the study died.

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It claims that all the Jewish patriarchs and matriarchs as well as all the Jewish prophets, kings and judges were Muslim.

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Mr Freedman writes of the furore in one Los Angeles congregation aroused by a woman who, leading services, inserted in one of the most sacred prayers the names of the four matriarchs alongside those of the three patriarchs.

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