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Blindness: a cultural history

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The Role of Charity in Blindness

The oldest evidence we have of somebody being blind is 45,000 years ago. So how does a man or Neanderthal survive if he is more than likely blind and death? And do we get any hints at what life might have been like for them? We just don't know exactly how he was treated.

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