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To: SunkenCiv

Then we became civilized which allowed the woosie men with the thin crania housing the underpowered brains to survive which gave rise to the Democrats.


3 posted on 05/22/2010 9:03:15 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Obama makes me miss Jimmah Cahtah!)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel
Genes play a part, but violence may be viral
by Tom Siegfried
Nov. 11, 2002
Dallas Morning News
The apparent implication is that dopamine and serotonin genes play an important role in aggressive violence. But genes cannot be the whole story of violence in the animal kingdom. Consider baboons, for instance. In the wild they are normally peaceful and live in harmony with their fellow primates. But after associating with humans for a while, baboons turn nasty. They attack each other rather viciously, in fact, sinking their fangs into the most sensitive of body regions. Females try to bite the tails off of other females... In the violent ones, a brain region called the superior temporal gyrus seems enlarged on the left side. In peaceful baboons that region seemed larger on the right side of the brain. For some reason, the violent baboons' brains become modified in a way that promotes aggression.
The Scars of Evolution
by Elaine Morgan
"The most remarkable aspect of Todaro's discovery emerged when he examined Homo Sapiens for the 'baboon marker'. It was not there... Todaro drew one firm conclusion. 'The ancestors of man did not develop in a geographical area where they would have been in contact with the baboon. I would argue that the data we are presenting imply a non-African origin of man millions of years ago.'"

12 posted on 05/22/2010 9:18:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

In my experiences, the one with the largest wallet wins.


14 posted on 05/22/2010 9:19:54 AM PDT by gigster
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