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Are we civilised? Should we be?
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Posted in Ethics, Society
Tagged Civilisation, courtesy, Norbert Elias, progress, Steven Pinker, violence
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Were our hunter-gatherer ancestors violent?
Yesterday I was at an anthropological lecture in Liverpool University where speakers talked about violence in hunter-gatherer communities. The overall theme was that our ancestors weren’t as bad as we thought. Douglas Fry told us that in nomadic social life … Continue reading