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Boys with 'Warrior Gene' More Likely to Join Gangs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090605/ ^

Posted on 06/05/2009 1:46:32 PM PDT by LottieDah

Boys who have a so-called "warrior gene" are more likely to join gangs and also more likely to be among the most violent members and to use weapons, a new study finds.

"While gangs typically have been regarded as a sociological phenomenon, our investigation shows that variants of a specific MAOA gene, known as a 'low-activity 3-repeat allele,' play a significant role," said biosocial criminologist Kevin M. Beaver of Florida State University.

In 2006, the controversial warrior gene was implicated in the violence of the indigenous Maori people in New Zealand, a claim that Maori leaders dismissed.

But it's no surprise that genes would be involved in aggression. Aggression is a primal emotion like many others, experts say, and like cooperation, it is part of human nature, something that's passed down genetically. And almost all mammals are aggressive in some way or another, said Craig Kennedy, professor of special education and pediatrics at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, whose research last year suggested that humans crave violence just like they do sex, food or drugs.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: aggression; culture; gangs; genetics; males; psychology; society; warriors
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1 posted on 06/05/2009 1:46:32 PM PDT by LottieDah
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To: LottieDah

Now this? I just read an article about a group of genetic scientists who claim that diarrhea is hereditary.


2 posted on 06/05/2009 1:48:19 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The University of Notre Dame's motto: "Kill our unborn children? YES WE CAN!")
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To: LottieDah

Maybe some boys with warrior genes wind up joining the military instead of joining gangs.


3 posted on 06/05/2009 1:48:57 PM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
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To: LottieDah

Wow.
There is, apparently, a gene for everything.

Still waiting for them to identify the “gay” gene, though.


4 posted on 06/05/2009 1:49:13 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: LottieDah

"Warriors....come out and play-yay...."

5 posted on 06/05/2009 1:49:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (USM is Gator Bait! (Congrats to U-Dub!))
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To: Jeff Chandler

“I just read an article about a group of genetic scientists who claim that diarrhea is hereditary.”

There may be something to that. Kids for liberal families do have verbal diarrhea.


6 posted on 06/05/2009 1:50:35 PM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
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To: LottieDah

Broken link?


7 posted on 06/05/2009 1:51:23 PM PDT by PreciousLiberty
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To: LottieDah

I’m encouraging my 7 yo son to become an ice cream taster or play tennis or any other softie thing I can think of. He says he wants to be a Navy Seal, but mom says NO! He says he’ll bring me home souvenirs. I tell him I only want him to bring home HIM!


8 posted on 06/05/2009 1:51:52 PM PDT by ChocChipCookie (My new survival blog! www.thesurvivalmom.com)
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To: LottieDah

Does this mean we have to let gang members marry each other?


9 posted on 06/05/2009 1:52:50 PM PDT by JoeDetweiler
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To: Jeff Chandler

“Now this? I just read an article about a group of genetic scientists who claim that diarrhea is hereditary.”

We DEFINITELY know that diarrhea of the mouth is hereditary and contagious—most in Congress and the media have it. The only problem is that this disease is coupled with a constipation of ideas!


10 posted on 06/05/2009 1:53:49 PM PDT by GWMcClintock ("When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?" Ps. 11:3)
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To: ChocChipCookie

Oh boy are you going to get an earful. And rightly so.


11 posted on 06/05/2009 1:53:54 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: LottieDah
Boys who have a so-called "warrior gene"...

That's that Y chromosome?

12 posted on 06/05/2009 1:54:29 PM PDT by nina0113
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To: LottieDah

I wonder what gene it is that makes a boy want to become a community organizer. The Thugs gene?


13 posted on 06/05/2009 1:55:35 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: LottieDah

“M’am, your fetus has a ‘warrior gene.’ We have to abort it.”


14 posted on 06/05/2009 1:56:06 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: LottieDah

Where I come from those are not called warrior genes, they are called cojones.


15 posted on 06/05/2009 1:57:07 PM PDT by Juan Medén
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To: ChocChipCookie

My commie lib ex had me take my son to see “Saving Private Ryan” so that he could see the horror of war. That was ten years ago and he grew up with little influence from me. Well, he’s getting into the SEAL program now.


16 posted on 06/05/2009 1:58:10 PM PDT by tired1 (When the Devil eats you there's only one way out.)
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To: LottieDah
Being in the military takes self discipline. I doubt a bunch of liberals at some university are going to know what it takes to be a real warrior.

I suspect this is the aggressive assh-le gene... Gang members don't have what it takes to be warriors.

17 posted on 06/05/2009 1:59:13 PM PDT by GOPJ (Fight the Machine - STOP supporting the MSM.)
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To: LottieDah

Does it give them a low sloping forehead, a heavy brow and beady eyes? Did phrenologists have it right after all?


18 posted on 06/05/2009 2:00:01 PM PDT by frithguild (Can I drill your head now?)
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To: dfwgator

You’ve heard about the planned sequel/remake, right?

Supposedly, Michael Beck will make a return/cameo.


19 posted on 06/05/2009 2:00:10 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: ChocChipCookie
I’m encouraging my 7 yo son to become an ice cream taster or play tennis or any other softie thing I can think of. He says he wants to be a Navy Seal, but mom says NO! He says he’ll bring me home souvenirs. I tell him I only want him to bring home HIM!

When I was about 8, I decided I would be in the Green Berets, my dad even brought me home a real Green Beret, that fit me, from a friend of his in Vietnam. I did join the service but dad talked me out of the Army, he was Airborne in the Korean war....;)

20 posted on 06/05/2009 2:01:47 PM PDT by ScreamingFist
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