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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 20 Oct 2017

    Scientists battle over whether violence has declined over time https://www.sciencenews.org/article/scientists-battle-over-whether-violence-has-declined-over-time … via @AddThis

    7:33 AM - 20 Oct 2017
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      1. John Colapinto‏ @JohnColapinto 20 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @addthis

        .@sapinker It has declined and I'll beat the crap out of anyone who disagrees.

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      1. Uriel Marx C. Bispo‏ @urielmarx 20 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @addthis

        @lucianocupim viu essa? Um estudo novo desafiando algumas idéias do Pinker sobre violência ao longo da história -https://www.sciencenews.org/article/scientists-battle-over-whether-violence-has-declined-over-time …

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      2. Garth Kroeker‏ @DrGarthK 20 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @addthis

        What are your thoughts about Christopher Ryan’s thesis that pre-agricultural foragers in small groups were more peaceful?

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      3. Jeff Brooks‏ @JeBroo5 20 Oct 2017
        Replying to @DrGarthK @sapinker @addthis

        What is his thesis based on? I haven't come across this thesis yet, so I'm curious.

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      4. James Burnett‏ @james_burnett_ 20 Oct 2017
        Replying to @JeBroo5 @DrGarthK

        As far as I can make out Ryan is an author pushing a few ideas. He has no credentials and has done little, if any, research.

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      5. Jeff Brooks‏ @JeBroo5 21 Oct 2017
        Replying to @james_burnett_ @DrGarthK

        Ah, in other words it's just more paleo-fantasy then? Thanks, I'll have to look him up sometime today.

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      6. Garth Kroeker‏ @DrGarthK 21 Oct 2017
        Replying to @JeBroo5 @james_burnett_

        I was hoping to hear an opinion from a scholar who has actually read their book.

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      7. Jeff Brooks‏ @JeBroo5 21 Oct 2017
        Replying to @DrGarthK @james_burnett_

        Two things: 1) Pinker doesn't respond to comments, so good luck 2) Many of us haven't heard of Ryan yet, which is why I asked you about him

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      8. Jeff Brooks‏ @JeBroo5 21 Oct 2017
        Replying to @JeBroo5 @DrGarthK @james_burnett_

        For the record, Pinker deals with agricultural foragers on pp. 46-47 of Better Angels: they fight for "gain, safety, & credible deterrence."

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      9. Garth Kroeker‏ @DrGarthK 21 Oct 2017
        Replying to @JeBroo5 @james_burnett_

        “Better Angels...” is one of the best nonfiction books I’ve read—a message of cautious hope and optimism which I find relevant in my work.

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      1. Hope‏ @itbeginswithtch 30 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @addthis

        Scientists ‘battle’? Seems violent.

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      1. Gavin Revitt‏ @Gavrev 22 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @addthis

        Violence will always be with us, so will compassion. Its up to us to decide which wins, moment by moment.

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      1. Mike Cameron‏ @Mcam8414 22 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @addthis

        Flawed study. Nowadays technology allows a fewer number of aggressors to inflict greater casualties, thus keeping up the class average.

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      1. th0mbie chimp‏ @zombiech1mp 21 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @YeyoZa @addthis

        What happened to 100 million missing Asian women?

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      1. Barry Stevens‏ @BarryKStevens 20 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @addthis

        Does study include intragroup killings in nonstate societies as well as intergroup? If it did, would that raise rates in nonstate groups?

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      2. David Crichton‏ @MrDavidCrichton 20 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @addthis

        Physical violence maybe (if you exclude extremism) but psychological (social and institutional) violence has ramped up.Meaner hearts at play

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      3. James Burnett‏ @james_burnett_ 20 Oct 2017
        Replying to @MrDavidCrichton @addthis

        I think watching your children die from starvation and disease was worse than the "psychological violence" you refer to.

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      4. David Crichton‏ @MrDavidCrichton 20 Oct 2017
        Replying to @james_burnett_ @addthis

        Yeah starvation and disease have nothing to do with violence. Poverty and disease have to do with governance and economics.

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      5. James Burnett‏ @james_burnett_ 21 Oct 2017
        Replying to @MrDavidCrichton @addthis

        My point was that we are probably living in the best time in human history. Lowest levels of disease, poverty and violence (per capita).

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      6. David Crichton‏ @MrDavidCrichton 21 Oct 2017
        Replying to @james_burnett_ @addthis

        Dubious...

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