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Review of Walter Scheidel’s The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

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Betzig, L. Review of Walter Scheidel’s The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century . Hum Nat 28, 361–363 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-017-9293-z

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