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- The answer is neither, according to a controversial new study: People who lived in small bands in the past had no more proclivity toward violence than we do today.
www.science.org/content/article/why-human-society-isn-t-more-or-less-violent-pastWhy human society isn't more—or less—violent than in the past
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Oct 4, 2011 · And empirically, we can observe many ways in which violence has decreased over time, including a relief from cycles of deadly raiding and feuding when tribes came under the control of states,...
Apr 14, 2011 · This special issue brings together original contributions by scholars from various disciplines that examine how evolutionary and historical research can advance our understanding of violence.
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- 2011
After a brief discussion of the evolution of human violence, it introduces the Palaeolithic and Neolithic beginnings of human violence before examining prehistoric and ancient warfare.
The answer is that these issues strike at the very heart of the criminology of violence: they are aspects of the question of where violence comes from, how it is embedded in human history, how social institutions shape levels and manifestations of violence and how state order relates to deviance.
Oct 12, 2011 · As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures men are the more violent gender. Has human nature, specifically our inclination toward violence,...
- Ferris Jabr
Human violence, and especially warfare, is a topic of both deep concern and revulsion. The suffering and deaths over millennia are staggering and almost incomprehensible. Yet, the level of collective action involved in warfare probably exceeds that of any other human endeavour.
A large part of the debate revolves around homicide rates which are used to count violent deaths across the centuries. Using statistical methods, this approach claims that we can measure the levels of violence in human societies and thus capture far-reaching societal transformations.
