The reason that Europeans are so peaceful today relatively speaking to other peoples on the planet aside from East Asians is because of the change of genetics over 800 years in the making.
Over 800 years from the 12th century onwards the Europeans became less bloodthirsty and homicidal within their own societies as the war on murder commenced.
The result being:
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This change in behavior is also observed in Russian experiments that removed the most violent and aggressive foxes from the breeding pool:
This has occurred to a larger extent ever since humans have lived in civilizations:
Which seems to be the result of the suppression of anti-social behavior. And subsequent removal of such humans from the gene pool ever since the formation of the state.
Evidence of pacification can also be observed by the levels of homicide per capita state vs non-state:
![[Image: ourworldindata_rate-of-violent-deaths-in...-roser.png]](https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ourworldindata_rate-of-violent-deaths-in-nonstate-and-state-societies_max-roser.png)
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[1]http://evoandproud.blogspot.com.au/2013/...ntler.html
[2]https://ourworldindata.org/homicides
[3]http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/677209
[4]https://ourworldindata.org/ethnographic-...ent-deaths
Over 800 years from the 12th century onwards the Europeans became less bloodthirsty and homicidal within their own societies as the war on murder commenced.
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And so began the war on murder. From the 12th to 17th centuries, capital punishment became steadily more prevalent. We see this in an increasing willingness to use it not only for murder but also for other crimes (rape, abortion, infanticide, lèse majesté, theft, counterfeiting, etc.). We also see this in the use of ‘exemplary’ punishment: drawing and quartering, breaking on the wheel, and burning. Beginning in the 13th and 14th centuries, we see cases of a murderer being buried alive in a casket placed underneath the victim’s casket (Carbasse, 2011, p. 53).
Then, after the 17th century, the war on murder began to go into reverse. It had been largely won, and public sympathy now shifted to the condemned man. In England, the homicide rate fell by over a hundred-fold between 1300 and 1900 (Eisner, 2001). Europeans were becoming kinder and gentler, and this pacification of social relations would make possible much of what we call modernity: the expansion of the market economy; a growing freedom to live among total strangers; the rise of the individual as an autonomous, self-maximizing being, and so on.
The result being:
[2]This change in behavior is also observed in Russian experiments that removed the most violent and aggressive foxes from the breeding pool:
This has occurred to a larger extent ever since humans have lived in civilizations:
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The past 200,000 years of human cultural evolution have witnessed the persistent establishment of behaviors involving innovation, planning depth, and abstract and symbolic thought, or what has been called “behavioral modernity.” Demographic models based on increased human population density from the late Pleistocene onward have been increasingly invoked to understand the emergence of behavioral modernity. However, high levels of social tolerance, as seen among living humans, are a necessary prerequisite to life at higher population densities and to the kinds of cooperative cultural behaviors essential to these demographic models. Here we provide data on craniofacial feminization (reduction in average brow ridge projection and shortening of the upper facial skeleton) in Homo sapiens from the Middle Pleistocene to recent times. We argue that temporal changes in human craniofacial morphology reflect reductions in average androgen reactivity (lower levels of adult circulating testosterone or reduced androgen receptor densities), which in turn reflect the evolution of enhanced social tolerance since the Middle Pleistocene.
Which seems to be the result of the suppression of anti-social behavior. And subsequent removal of such humans from the gene pool ever since the formation of the state.
Evidence of pacification can also be observed by the levels of homicide per capita state vs non-state:
[4][1]http://evoandproud.blogspot.com.au/2013/...ntler.html
[2]https://ourworldindata.org/homicides
[3]http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/677209
[4]https://ourworldindata.org/ethnographic-...ent-deaths
