Since then, further studies and stories have regularly surfaced – a recent example being research on MAOA and “extreme criminal violent behavior” in recidivist offenders in Finland.Ĭrime, violence and genes create a heady mix that has proved irresistible, especially when combined with the sexy term ‘warrior gene’. Then, in 2004, the moniker “warrior gene” appeared, seemingly as an attempt to spice up an article about MAOA and aggression in rhesus monkeys. This was followed, in 2002, by the first substantive study implicating MAOA in the violent behavior of adults with a history of childhood abuse. In the 1990s, a variant of the gene encoding monoamine oxidase A was identified in males from a large Dutch family known for a history of extreme violence.
(Or a blood-splattered viking.) This is hardly surprising: MAOA is, after all, better known as the ‘warrior gene’ and is now inextricably linked with antisocial or violent behavior.įirst, a quick background for those who may have missed all the hype.
#WARLIKE HUMAN GROUOS MOVIE#
Is the Genetic Literacy Project a corporate ‘front’? GLP responds to ongoing false allegations from US Right to Know / Organic Consumers Association / SourceWatch / Baum Hedlund / Church of ScientologyĪ near certainty whenever monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) rears its ugly head in popular science writing is that an ugly image will also accompany the article, most often of a bloodied head – Mel Gibson as Braveheart, say, or a screaming Spartan from the movie 300.
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