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Macdonald public library book club 1 defending jacob explores the emerging science of behavioral genetics and neurocriminology the notion that, as a predictor of criminal behavior, nature may indeed be as significant as nurture. Professor andrew dobson of princeton university is coming to cornell as an andrew d. Part one let us be practical in our expectations of the criminal law for we have merely to imagine, by some trick of time travel, meeting our earliest hominid ancestor, adam, a protoman, short of stature, luxuriantly furred, newly bipedal, foraging about on the african savannah three million or so years ago. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading defending jacob.
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