How to Get People to Really Like You & Why Humans Can Be So Kind & So Cruel
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Is Reactive Aggression on the Rise?
You said that reactive aggression is on the decrease in human beings. So is being nicer on the increase? In other words, just you're less aggressive doesn't make you necessarily nicer. But is that happening? Are we becoming nicer than we used to be? I think it's really difficult to see what's happening er in the very recent evolutionary past. We know that evolutionary changes can happen in just a few thousand years. Your like, since the introduction of eating milk or drinking milk, we've got changes in the milk drinking population, in their genes. Do we have evidence in the last six thousand years of people becoming less aggressive? Unfortunately, we don't know enough about the biology to
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