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Originally Posted by Pubic Wig
I apologise that was bad phrasing. I meant that there was talk of there being an 'evil gene' but not having studied biology i could only say its from what i have read in newspapers, seen in the news or been told by my old flatmate (who is off to Glasgow doing a PhD). I meant to say that it has been shown that there isnt an evil gene.
Im fairly certain that there is one or two journal articles about it at Dundee Uni library if you wana check? Are you a Biology graduate or have access to university online journals?
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I'm a graduate in human physiology and am 11 months into my PhD in molecular and cell biology.
What I'm saying is that there is no "evil" gene but acts of aggression
can be accounted for biologically. The ability to be aggressive is biologically important, after all, and is built into all of us.
Here's a good peer-reviewed paper on the general subject...
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/c...17096/PDFSTART
(it might need subscription so, if you can't access it, here's the abstract on pubmed)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/en...ubmed_RVDocSum