July 01, 2022
By Blair Wickstrom
In the 1870s Dr. Cesare Lombroso, founder of the Italian School of Criminology, became convinced that the “born criminal” could be identified by anatomical features such as a sloping forehead, ears of unusual size, asymmetry of the face and excessive length of arms.
Of similar mind and nearly 150 years later, neuroscientist Dr. Jim Fallon was also convinced psychopathic killers were born, and he believed a specific gene in the brain was the link. However, after finding out that he himself, along with most in his family, had the gene, he had to rethink that hypothesis.
So, the question remained. Do we have natural-born killers among us? The answer is no. American...
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