Title: The surprising decline in violence

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The surprising decline in violence

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Steven Pinker |

TED2007

March 2007

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Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.

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