Word: xyy
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Discussing a gene mutation that increases maleaggression, Wilson said, "It has been reportedthat there is a higher percentage of XYY males inprison--and at Dartmouth and at Yale...
...understandable, given the tawdry history of earlier efforts to link biology and crime. A century ago, Italian physician Cesare Lombroso claimed that sloping foreheads, jutting chins and long arms were signs of born criminals. In the 1960s, scientists advanced the now discounted notion that men who carry an XYY chromosome pattern, rather than the normal XY pattern, were predisposed to becoming violent criminals...