Philip Hunter - Life Science

Psychopaths born not bred

The notion that genes play an important role in many diseases has been widely accepted, but many find it much harder to acknowledge a similar link with particular behaviour or even predisposition to crime. Partly for this reason, the study of behavioural genetics remains a controversial topic, with disagreement not just over the science itself, but even more so about the therapeutic, societal and legal implications.

http://www.nature.com/embor/journal/v11/n9/full/embor2010122.html