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Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the
decline
of inequality.
You can see that that peak happens a couple of years later in boys relative to girls, and that's probably because boys go through puberty a couple of years later than girls on average, and then during adolescence, there's a significant
decline
in gray matter volume in prefrontal cortex.
Now that might sound bad, but actually this is a really important developmental process, because gray matter contains cell bodies and connections between cells, the synapses, and this
decline
in gray matter volume during prefrontal cortex is thought to correspond to synaptic pruning, the elimination of unwanted synapses.
So the divorce rate right now is stable in America, and it's actually beginning to
decline.
It may
decline
some more.
Now, the original title of this session was, "Everything You Know Is Wrong," and I'm going to present evidence that this particular part of our common understanding is wrong, that, in fact, our ancestors were far more violent than we are, that violence has been in
decline
for long stretches of time, and that today we are probably living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.
The
decline
of violence is a fractal phenomenon.
The people who said that rock 'n' roll would lead to the
decline
of moral values actually had a grain of truth to that.
But there was a
decline
from at least two orders of magnitude in homicide from the Middle Ages to the present, and the elbow occurred in the early sixteenth century.
According to non-governmental organizations that keep such statistics, since 1945, in Europe and the Americas, there has been a steep
decline
in interstate wars, in deadly ethnic riots or pogroms, and in military coups, even in South America.
Worldwide, there's been a steep
decline
in deaths in interstate wars.
Even in the year scale, one can see a
decline
of violence.
You can see that there is a fairly low rate of violence in the '50s and the '60s, then it soared upward for several decades, and began a precipitous decline, starting in the 1990s, so that it went back to the level that was last enjoyed in 1960.
It may also be powered by cosmopolitanism, by histories, and journalism, and memoirs, and realistic fiction, and travel, and literacy, which allows you to project yourself into the lives of other people that formerly you may have treated as sub-human, and also to realize the accidental contingency of your own station in life, the sense that "there but for fortune go I." Whatever its causes, the
decline
of violence, I think, has profound implications.
The New York Times finally noticed this asteroid with a front-page story last July showing how the
decline
of marriage contributes to inequality.
Because Americans on both sides care about the
decline
in civility, and they've formed dozens of organizations, at the national level, such as this one, down to many local organizations, such as To The Village Square in Tallahassee, Florida, which tries to bring state leaders together to help facilitate that sort of working together human relationship that's necessary to solve Florida's problems.
The man in the middle is an Argentinian researcher, and he has documented the steady
decline
of that land over the years as they kept reducing sheep numbers.
If you don't know it, there's been a 79-percent
decline
in the number of women majoring in computer science just since 2000.
The idea is that texting spells the
decline
and fall of any kind of serious literacy, or at least writing ability, among young people in the United States and now the whole world today.
And it's a very interesting thing, but nevertheless easy to think that still it represents some sort of
decline.
So we need a lot of innovation to offset this
decline.
Climate change has affected the world for a long period of time, and gradually, the forests disappeared, the country began to dry out, and the number of kinds of thylacines began to decline, until by five million years ago, only one left.
In the United States, bees in fact have been in
decline
since World War II.
One's a claim: there has been a great
decline
in trust, very widely believed.
But also, we're finding from Freedom House in a study that they published last year that freedom has been on the
decline
every year for the past seven years.
Of course, electronic sensors have been around for some time, but something has changed: a sharp
decline
in the cost of sensors and, thanks to advances in cloud computing, a rapid decrease in the cost of storing and processing data.
Now we know that our arable land per capita is already on the
decline
in both developed and developing countries.
It just seemed like it was continuing to increase, until about 1980, when we started to see a
decline.
But you can see about an 18-percent
decline
in the amount of fish we've gotten in our world catch since 1980.
This means that if we take that fishery catch that's on the
decline
and we could turn it upwards, we could increase it up to 100 million metric tons per year.
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