Humans becoming less violent?

Humans becoming less violent?

By Elaine Jarvik

Deseret News

Published Despite the headlines — the incessant reports of roadside bombs and gang killings and civil wars — humans are actually becoming less violent.

That's the encouraging news from a national conference this week at the University of Utah.

The conference, "The Evolution of Human Aggression: Lessons for Today's Conflicts," is presented by the university's Barbara L. and Norman C. Tanner Center for Nonviolent Human Rights Advocacy. Over three days, the conference has explored aggression among chimps, homicide rates among humans, and domestic violence.

The upshot: violence may be part of our nature, but so are cooperation and reconciliation, traits we may have inherited from our primate ancestors. Over the course of history, there is evidence that we're figuring out how to get along better, or at least recognizing that it's to our benefit not to whack each other's heads off.

"Contrary to popular belief, our ancestors were far more violent" than we are, said Harvard University psychology professor Steven Pinker. And today is "probably the most peaceful time in history."

Despite the fact that a third of men and 15 percent of women report having fantasies of killing someone they don't like, as individuals and societies we're better able to inhibit those violent tendencies, Pinker said.

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