Sentences with phrase «violent than our forebears»
As populations scale up, the proportion of people killed in battle scales down, suggesting we're no more or less violent than our forebears who lived in smaller societies.
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Richard Wrangham presents the startling evidence that recent human societies are already much, much less violent than our forebears (and that includes the dozens of millions dead in the World Wars).