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  • These investigations show that, on average, about 15% of people in prestate eras died violently, compared to about 3% of the citizens of the earliest states.

    Violence Vanquished Steven Pinker 2011

  • His father had fought alongside Menachem Begin in the Irgun, the prestate Zionist militia that many people, including many other Jews at the time, had considered terrorists.

    How to Make Peace in the Middle East in Six Months or Less Without Leaving Your Apartment Gregory Levey 2010

  • The Newtonian scientific framework where we can prestate the variables, the laws among the variables, and the initial and boundary conditions, and then compute the forward behavior of the system, cannot help us predict future states of the biosphere.

    enowning enowning 2008

  • The Newtonian scientific framework where we can prestate the variables, the laws among the variables, and the initial and boundary conditions, and then compute the forward behavior of the system, cannot help us predict future states of the biosphere.

    Archive 2008-08-01 enowning 2008

  • Many Jewish readers were upset by Cohen's revelation that the prestate Zionist intelligence agency, Shai, and the Jewish Agency's Arab bureau exploited almost every honest Jewish and Palestinian relationship to advance narrow Zionist interests.

    Monday, March 31, 2008 As'ad 2008

  • Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook, who established the Chief Rabbinate in prestate Israel, opposed the granting of suffrage to women on the grounds that such a right would alter traditional gender roles and thereby destroy the Jewish family.

    Rabbi vs. Rabbi on Gay Marraige 2004

  • Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook, who established the Chief Rabbinate in prestate Israel, opposed the granting of suffrage to women on the grounds that such a right would alter traditional gender roles and thereby destroy the Jewish family.

    Alas, a blog » 2004 » March 2004

  • Many prestate societies are bands, associations of families that may not exceed 25 to 60 people, the dominant form of social organization for most hunter-gatherers from the earliest times up to the origins of farming.

    f. Subdividing Prehistoric Times 2001

  • They subdivide all human societies into two broad categories: prestate and state-organized societies.

    f. Subdividing Prehistoric Times 2001

  • Now consider an evolving cell in which one or more objects or processes, each with myriad causal consequences, finds a novel use which we cannot prestate but which enhances the fitness of the cell, so is grafted into the evolving biosphere by natural selection.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

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