It is widely accepted by anthropologists that there was a long period of 'prehistoric peace.' For example, such is the view of the mainstream popular books Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens, and Rutger Bregman's Humankind. (The title of the book refers to the Biblical story of the fall of man coincidence?) Some of the book's findings are now mainstream views. Originally published in 2005 with a new edition that includes an afterword published later in 2018, it claims that "It is not natural for human beings to kill each other, for men to oppress women, for individuals to accumulate massive wealth and power, or to abuse nature", and that human nature changed after a period of aridification 5900 years ago. The Fall: The Insanity of the Ego in Human History and the Dawning of A New Era is a book by Steve Taylor PhD, a psychologist at Leeds Beckett University.
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