Nasty, brutish and short

It's hard to believe but overall, we really are getting better.

According to anthropologist, Lawrence Keeley, if modern societies suffered the same casualty rates as primitive people, we would have had an additional two billion war deaths in the 20th century. His book

"War before Civilization" (Lawrence H. Keeley)

You can forget too the myth of the noble savage. The lives of primitive people were nasty, brutish and short.

The Fraud of Primitive Authenticity