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Anthropology

BigmanPigman

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2. The article also said that we are living in a very peaceful time now.

Reply to wnylib (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 29, 2020, 03:42 AM

Feb 2020

"The medieval period was a particular killer, with human-on-human violence responsible for 12 percent of recorded deaths. But for the last century, we’ve been relatively peaceable, killing one another off at a rate of just 1.33 percent worldwide. And in the least violent parts of the world today, we enjoy homicide rates as low as 0.01 percent."

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Humans get some of their knack for killing each other from the primate family tree, a new study says [View all] BigmanPigman Feb 2020 OP

Those least violent parts of the world wnylib Feb 2020 #1

The article also said that we are living in a very peaceful time now. BigmanPigman Feb 2020 #2

Yes, I saw that. But the reference wnylib Feb 2020 #3