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OP - March 09, 2015, 11:32 AM

...A breakthrough came in 1993 with a family in the Netherlands where all the men had a history of violence. Fifteen years of painstaking research revealed that they all lacked the same gene.

This gene produces an enzyme called MAOA, which regulates the levels of neurotransmitters involved in impulse control. It turns out that if you lack the MAOA gene or have the low-activity variant you are predisposed to violence....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31714853
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Reply #1 - March 09, 2015, 11:36 AM

I love the way this thread comes up on the side bar...

'Are murderers born or mad...'
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Reply #2 - March 09, 2015, 11:53 AM

lol
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Reply #3 - March 09, 2015, 02:18 PM

Quote from: Hassan on March 09, 2015, 11:32 AM
...A breakthrough came in 1993 with a family in the Netherlands where all the men had a history of violence. Fifteen years of painstaking research revealed that they all lacked the same gene.

This gene produces an enzyme called MAOA, which regulates the levels of neurotransmitters involved in impulse control. It turns out that if you lack the MAOA gene or have the low-activity variant you are predisposed to violence....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31714853

what is this allah fool who creates all his creatures and who is looking after his creatures after creating them doing? can't he control genes, enzymes products and reactions?

Hmm That BBC link says
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In the 1870s Dr Cesare Lombroso, sometimes called the father of scientific criminology, was studying criminals imprisoned in Turin.

.............you could tell a criminal by the shape of their face and the excessive length of their ape-like arms.

"A criminal's ears," he wrote, "are often of a large size. The nose is frequently upturned or of a flattened character in thieves. In murderers it is often aquiline like the beak of a bird of prey."...

good.. let me get the measuring tool and measure length of arms of the picture I see on the side bar.. Hmm the nose does appears to be upturned.

Errr........Forget that non-science nonsense., let me read this story from the same news link.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29415876

what a story.. it is real..

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Reply #4 - March 09, 2015, 02:29 PM

Quote from: yeezevee on March 09, 2015, 02:18 PM
what is this allah fool who creates all his creatures and who is looking after his creatures after creating them doing? can't he control genes, enzymes products and reactions?

Apparently not.

But believers will say he wanted it this way.

Allah is trolling us.
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Reply #5 - March 09, 2015, 11:06 PM

Ever hear of Monoamine Oxidase A? Otherwise known as the "warrior gene".

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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Reply #6 - March 09, 2015, 11:43 PM

Quote from: Hassan on March 09, 2015, 11:32 AM
...A breakthrough came in 1993 with a family in the Netherlands where all the men had a history of violence. Fifteen years of painstaking research revealed that they all lacked the same gene.

This gene produces an enzyme called MAOA, which regulates the levels of neurotransmitters involved in impulse control. It turns out that if you lack the MAOA gene or have the low-activity variant you are predisposed to violence....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31714853

That documentary created from this piece was very intriguing and captivating.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0555v7v

Will update link when it comes out
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Reply #7 - March 10, 2015, 09:59 AM

I remember reading a book on Serial killers a few years ago, the author alledges many of them, from West to Kempler share two common characteristics. An abusive childhood and receiving a severe head injury at some point in their youth. Now it may purely be down to coincidence but when reading the book it sure felt like seeing a pattern emerge. If nothing else I can only imagine how these two factors might feed into the sum of the greater product, i.e the mind of a killer.
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Reply #8 - March 10, 2015, 11:22 AM

Quote from: Lilyesque on March 09, 2015, 11:43 PM
That documentary created from this piece was very intriguing and captivating.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0555v7v

Will update link when it comes out

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0555v7v
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