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Steven Pinker, the Harvard evolutionary psychologist who wrote The Blank Slate, has a great essay titled "A History of Violence" on his website. It appeared in The National Review in March, and does a great job of debunking the Noble Savage myth. Those of us who don't subscribe to TNR can get it from Prof Pinker's website as a 200K PDF. I highly recommend it. (Perhaps growing up without electricity has something to do with my utter contempt for those who think civilisation is bad for us.)

Posted by: Chris Chittleborough at 02:33 AM | Comments (1) | Add Comment
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