Even those tribal peoples extolled by anthropologists as especially “gentle” – for example, the Semai of Malaysia, the Kung of the Kalahari, and the Central Arctic Inuit – turn out to have murder rates that are, relative to population, comparable to Detroit, which has one of the highest murder rates in the United States.
(En comparación, en la primera mitad del siglo XX, las dos guerras mundiales causaron una tasa de muerte en Europa de no más del tres por ciento.)