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Genetic Tests. Some researchers have found that the XYY syndrome is 50 to 60 times more prevalent among convicts than in the general population. Others, among them Anthropologist Ashley Montagu, suggest that environmental factors are at least as important as chromosomal abnormality in causing criminal behavior. French Geneticist Jerome Lejeune, who in 1961 discovered the chromosomal abnormality that leads to Mongolism, agreed with Montagu during testimony at the Hugon trial-with an important qualification. "There are no born criminals," said Lejeune, "but persons with the XYY defect have considerably higher chances...
...exercises today were Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Pedro Gerardo Beltran, publisher of La Prensa in Lima, Peru; Livingston T. Merchant, U. S. career diplomat; J. E. Wallace Sterling, retiring president of Stanford University; and two scientists--Nobel laureate Dorothy Crawfoot Hodgkin and geneticist-chemist Marshall W. Nirenberg...
...Maimon Cohen, geneticist at the State University of New York at Buffalo, reported last week that in a study of 220 LSD users between 70% and 80% showed chromosomal damage in their blood cells-four times the normal rate. What is more, he said, babies of women who had taken LSD during the first three months of pregnancy showed increased chromosome breaks in body cells...
...effort to produce offspring both disease-resistant and beautiful. Their efforts have been fruitless so far, probably because Siberian elm cells have only half the number of heredity-bearing chromosomes found in the cells of their American cousins. To make the elms compatible, two retired Department of Agriculture scientists, Geneticist Haig Dermen, 71, and Plant Pathologist Curtis May, 70, decided to experiment with colchicine-an antigout drug that has a peculiar effect on the division of plant cells...
...scientist who is closer to the pertinent field put it in less provocative terms. "The idea that human races differ in adaptively significant traits is emotionally repugnant to some people," wrote Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky in Mankind Evolving. "Any inquiry into this matter is felt to be dangerous, lest it vindicate race prejudice." Undeniably, racial prejudice is social or cultural in origin rather than biological, and it is understandable that anthropologists, who hesitate to make value judgments on the basis of biological fact, would hesitate also to enter what is fundamentally a sociological-and highly emotional-controversy. Anthropologist Morton Fried says...