The fact is that serious crimes of violence occur at remarkably low rates in modern societies.

事实是，在现代文明社会中，严重暴力犯罪发生率非常低。

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Regardless of our evolutionary past, in modern societies men and women freely choose their mates.

无管我们的进化过去如何，在现代社会，男人和女人自由地选择自己的配偶。

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The researchers say that "the honing of these norms and institutions continues in modern societies."

研究者们认为“这些准则和社会机构在当代社会中会继续得到完善”。

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The type 2 diabetes epidemic we are now witnessing among first- and second-generation Latinos (and in Mexico and South America), he says, may simply be nature's way of getting rid of populations that still carry the so-called thrifty gene a gene that is no longer necessary for survival in modern societies of abundance.

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Observing that younger generations in modern societies may have difficulties in understanding the values and significance of intangible cultural heritage, the Director-General noted that in traditional societies, where information from outside was limited and young people acquired new knowledge primarily from older people in their communities, intangible cultural heritage was naturally and directly transmitted from generation to generation through their daily activities.

UNESCO: Culture

Writing, Mr Fischer points out, has extraordinary power, greatest of all in modern literate societies.

ECONOMIST: Language