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		yters on Dec 17, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Powerful Ideas I find that highly, highly implausible. No way hunter gatherers can have killed on the scale we have this past century.

klbarry on Dec 17, 2010 [–]

The calculation is by percentage of population, not absolute deaths.

yters on Dec 19, 2010 | [–]

If we're talking ratio of killer to killed, the ratio is much more horrific for the past century.

klbarry on Jan 1, 2011 | | [–]

Yes, but that ratio is fairly useless, no?

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