Theory of the killer instinct in our genes dismissed as 'bullshit'
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David Buss, a professor of psychology at Texas University, claims that homicide is a part of the evolutionary process and that while the killer instinct now lies dormant in the majority of people, it can be triggered by events. Buss makes the claim in his new book "The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill", which is due to be published during May 2005. David Canter, professor of psychology at Liverpool University an a crime expert, dismisses the claim as "bullshit", while Stephen Rose, founder of the Open University's brain and behaviour research group, asks "What evidence is there that murderers leave more children than non-murderers?".
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2005
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Saucy poets let rip on farts of thunder
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Andrew McRae, professor of Renaissance studies at Exeter University, and Alastair Bellamy of Rutgers University, New Jersey, have made available online 350 examples of the sort of scurrilous, libellous political poetry and songs that were available in the early Stuart period leading up to the English Civil War in 1640. These poems were found through exhaustive research through private archives and are being made available to the public for the first time in 400 years.
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Year: 2005
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In a mere blink of time, pond life put the planet on ice
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New research by Joseph Kirschvink, professor of geobiology, and Robert Kopp, research student at the California Institute of Technology, suggests that cyanobacteria evolved around 2.3 billion years ago and had an immediate impact on the Earth. The scientists contend that the oxygen produced by the bacteria destroyed the existing high-methane greenhouse-type atmosphere, sending the Earth into an ice age that lasted for between 35-70 million years.
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Year: 2005
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