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As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

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Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn't have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other.

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I think that if you were to probe a lot of people's religious opinions, they would not be as religious as the numbers would suggest.

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You have to remember that not every creature that was evolving left behind its skull or its tools for our convenience tens of thousands of years later. Most bones or most tools rot or get buried and are never found again.

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I don't think there was a thunderclap or a divine spark that suddenly made one species smart. You can see, in our ancestors, there was a gradual expansion of the brain; there was an expansion of the complexity of tools.

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Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.

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The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

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I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books. While I'm writing a book, which I probably do two out of every three years, it's like having a second job. I squeeze in the hours when I can.

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I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

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Capitalism saved the world, and there is even a heretical theory now, moving up from the level of individuals to countries: countries that trade more and have more open economies are less likely to fight wars and less likely to have genocides.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Scientist

Born: September 18th, 1954

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