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by kangda123 1050 days ago
Interesting, do you have any sources for this?
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I can't give a source but a figure I heard was 30% to 90% of males died prematurely in preindustrial[1] cultures due to violence.

Can't remember the source, sorry.

[1] My word, afraid I can't recall the right/more precise one.

(Edit: I went looking for the source for this figure, tried Google, plugged in the text "30% to 90% of males died prematurely violence preindustrial" and the very first result was this exact comment! After less than 9 minutes! Although strangely, Google reports it as being 13 hours ago? All very odd).

Does Google have anyone tasked with investigating and resolving such mysteries?