Can our genes make us natural born criminals or at worst murderers? It is a debate that the geneticists and the legal community have been waging for years. It is the fundamental question that Dr. Jonathan H. Pincus discusses in his book "Base Instincts: What Makes Killers Kill?" "Dr. Pincus who is a professor of medicine and neurology at Georgetown University School of Medicine drew on his own experiences as a medical student at Bellevue Hospital. The clinical material in Base Instincts is also derived partly from the research that Dr. Pincus and his colleague Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a psychiatrist, conducted and published from 1970 through today. Dr. Pincus estimates that through the course of his studies he evaluated approximately 150 murderers." (Bernet 2)
"One such murderer is a man named Donovan, sent to death row for brutally and violently murdering a used car salesman to steal a small sum of money. Donovan stabbed the man so violently that he was virtually......
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