Steven Pinker writes a piece claiming the "leftist anthropologists'
celebration of the noble savage" was mistaken and that we are
becoming a much less violent species. Whilst referring to interesting
data, and more "interesting" explanations, Pinker hedges toward
celebrating our current peaceful state...rather a worry.
Phil
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge206.html#pinker
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