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Call to Action | Natural Born Killers

The tiny K. brevis organism is born, naturally, but not as a serial killer. A mix of environmental factors activate the evil in it, making K. brevis a mass murderer.

Call to Action | Natural Born Killers

Consequences of red tide supercharged by nutrient overload. Events of this scale happen too often in Florida.

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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