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Murders, he wrote: a note on declining deadly violence

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In an article in this Journal, Edwin Mills (J Bioecon 11:296, 2009) raises to future researchers the following question: ‘[W]hy has natural selection not produced a gradual trend toward a reduction in deadly violence?’ This question has two components: (1) Has deadly violence declined? And (2) What role has been played by natural selection? This note highlights evidence bearing upon the first of these questions and offers perspectives on the second.

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McClure, J.E. Murders, he wrote: a note on declining deadly violence. J Bioecon 13, 205–212 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-011-9112-2

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