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Decline of violence

Taming the devil within us

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We are getting smarter, and as a result the world is becoming a more peaceful place, says Steven Pinker.

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  1. Steven Pinker is in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. This article is adapted from his new book The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and its Causes (Allen Lane, 2011).,

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