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Which animal murders the most?

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Is violence a part of human nature? A new study attempts to answer the question by looking at the rates of lethal violence across a thousand species. Ed Yong and The Atlantic break down the list of the most murdery mammals and explain how humans stack up.

Primates are ___ times more likely to kill each other than other mammals are.

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