By Michael J. Smith on Monday April 7, 2008 11:08 AM
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080404/full/news.2008.738.html
Researchers at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem..(Where else?)
... found a link between a gene called AVPR1a and ruthless behaviour in an economic exercise called the 'Dictator Game'.Great, now they can start breeding for it.
Comments (3)
I hope that's not a fair representation of either the research or the findings. Gene reductionist behaviorism is not a good like of inquiry for any university to be supporting.
Posted by Al Schumann | April 7, 2008 12:37 PM
Posted on April 7, 2008 12:37
my my zion discovers
the duce gene
how we doooo
become our opposite
Posted by op | April 7, 2008 2:59 PM
Posted on April 7, 2008 14:59
Wow, they gave 200 students $14 and they didn't want to share it w/ someone they were never going to meet. I bet heroine addicts and starving chinese children wouldn't either. Or my paper boy, a 40 year old high school drop out who rifles through my recycling bin every thursday. If I told him I had 50 shekels for him and only forked over $14 dollars, he'd kick my ass, walk away with the money, and say "one born every minute" to his son as he checked his hair in the rear view mirror. It'd make me a dictator too.
Posted by David D | April 8, 2008 8:42 AM
Posted on April 8, 2008 08:42