"At the widest-angle view, one can see a whopping difference across the millennia that separate us from our pre-state ancestors... quantitative body-counts... suggest that pre-state societies were far more violent than our own."
(Incredibly, he's even including all the wars and genocides of the 21st century in that body count)
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Brandon Thacker says:
Am I missing the link to the supporting article or is this an assertion based on no quantitative evidence?
November 30, 2007 6:43 PM
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