“[I]n the past two decades anthropologists have gathered data on life and death in pre-state societies rather than accepting the warm and fuzzy stereotypes. What did they find? In a nutshell: Hobbes was right, Rousseau was wrong.”

—  Steven Pinker, book The Blank Slate

p. 95 http://books.google.com/books?id=ePNi4ZqYdVQC&amp;q=%22hobbes+was+right%22 <br class="br">The Blank Slate (2002)

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