Each Age Gets the Bloodshed It Needs: 20,000 Years of Violence

Philippe Roman Chair Lecture

20,000 years ago, the average person stood a 10-20% chance of dying violently. Today, the chance is under 1%. How has this happened?

Ian Morris argues that violence has slowly been putting itself out of business, with war creating large organisations that impose peace.

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Event recorded February 9 2016.

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