Where did I claim only black people, That's what you said. I am referring to Africa as a whole. As for the genes violent tendencys can be atributed to heritage
So afrikaners are prone to violence too?
I wondered when this will start? I though so, Now you blame Apartheid. This black violence is not only here, Rwanda, Chad, etc etc
So? The whole of Africa was colonised at one point - you think that's not going to cause MAJOR economic and social upheavals? 100 years is *nothing* when waiting for the dust from such events to settle. It's still going to take years for Africa to calm down - and it would be true of any other place if it was subjected to similar treatment.
You can tell me nothing, You have not disproved it either so we agree to disagree. Fact remain the violent crimes is more apparent with black folk even in history. During wars they killed all folk, woman and baby's. I do not know about the Boers killing all and sundry, only warriors
I guess Hitler was black too?
Besides, that can easily be attributed to cultural differences, so it's not clear that it's genetic.
But then again I am not the expert, You seem to be but did not convince me! In Pit-bull terriers its a fact Genes may play a role. Ask your Wikipedia, maybe you get your prove there! Where is the information about the experts views on this. It was also a known fact that the vikings were cruel and powerful, how do you account for that... Also apartheid! Maybe the Boers were vikings?
I say that in this case, cultural influences play a far greater role than genetics.
You forget that we are not pitbulls. you can easily see the difference between a pitbull and a maltese poodle. This can't really be said of humans. Dogs vary from 25cm in height when fully grown to a whopping 1.5m. Aside from dwarfism, when last did you see a human being less than 1m tall? You don't get humans that typically reach 3m tall either. Humans are far less diverse in appearance compared to dogs, because we haven't been selectively bred for a few thousand years.
I don't think you realise just how much of an effect selective breeding has. To get to something like pitbulls, you select only the most aggressive, the meanest, the strongest dogs, and you breed them and their close relations over and over and over and over again until you have the desired result. This often means breading cousins and aunts-uncles with each other. How habitually does this happen in humans? The short answer is that it doesn't.
And African's don't need to be more violent than everyone else to survive, so there's no genetic pressure against those that aren't violent. On the other hand, in northern europe, lack of vitamin D is a decided pressure against people with dark skin - thus the people with lighter skin are more likely to survive, and over time, only those with light skin are left.
I'd say if you're determined to carry on with this analogy of yours, then you should rather be comparing pitbulls with white skin to pitbulls with black skin.
Terrie Moffitt, of the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College, London, and her colleagues, picked MAOA, the gene for a protein called monoamine oxidase-A, for their study, which has just been published in Science. Monoamine oxidase-A is an enzyme that breaks down members of an important group of neurotransmitters, the molecules that carry signals between nerve cells. These neurotransmitters include dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine, all of which help to regulate a person's mood.
There is abundant evidence that a reduced level of monoamine oxidase-A (and therefore an elevated level of these neurotransmitters) results in violent behaviour. There is also evidence that chronically low levels early in life result in an individual who is more than averagely predisposed to react violently to any given situation in adulthood, regardless of monoamine-oxidase levels at the time.
2 seconds search on Internet! I arrest my case Your honours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where's your study showing that Africans are more affected by this lack of monoamine oxidase-A compared to everyone else?
