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One study of the Inuit found that 40 per cent of girls were put to death at birth, while of 15 hunter-gatherer societies studied, 11 had homicide rates higher than the most violent nations today, and 14 were worse than the US in 2016, the exception being a group called the Batek who lived in Malaysia and whose survival strategy was to run away from rival tribes (which seems eminently sensible).
Small Men on the Wrong Side of History: The Decline, Fall and Unlikely Return of Conservatism
by Ed West
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