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Death by violence has, though, increased drastically since hunter gatherer societies: http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violence.html http:/

• mseebach 16y ago
  I think you mean decreased. +1 for the talk, that was very inspiring.
  • klbarry 16y ago
    Oh my goodness, yes, horrible typo, I meant decrease.
• yters 16y ago
  I find that highly, highly implausible. No way hunter gatherers can have killed on the scale we have this past century.
  • klbarry 16y ago
    The calculation is by percentage of population, not absolute deaths.
    • yters 16y ago
      If we're talking ratio of killer to killed, the ratio is much more horrific for the past century.
      • klbarry 16y ago
        Yes, but that ratio is fairly useless, no?