behavioral genetics
May. 11, 2010
The Murder Gene
The Murder Gene may indeed be junk science, for now at least, but it is a haunting idea.
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Sep. 18, 2009
Biocriminology
“There’s certainly a brain basis to crime … the brains of violent criminals are physically and functionally different from the rest of us.”— Adrian Raine A burgeoning science suggests that crime is caused in part by biological factors, that is, by traits inherited through DNA or by the brain malfunctioning in very specific ways. Adrian [...]
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