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Modern capitalist social organization, through intensified, con flicted work and the destruction of cooperative, supportive forms of social com munity, causes a large excess mortality among adults in developed countries. This excess mortality is most strikingly evident in the comparison of vital rates for advanced capitalist societies whith those of undisrupted hunter-gatherers.
Eyer et al. (Fri,) studied this question.