id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt news-000116 Violence a matter of scale, not quantity, researchers show | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame .html text/html 1004 36 47 This is seen by many to suggest that contemporary large societies are less violent than past small scale societies, promoting the idea that before the state, life was nasty, brutish and short.” Oka and his co-authors gathered data on population and war group size from 295 societies and on war group size and conflict-related casualties from 430 historical conflicts going back to 2500 B.C. They plotted the available data on population size, war group size and conflict casualties. cache/news-000116.html txt/news-000116.txt