Re: [ranchos] mtDNA and other DNA

< Also, the man next door talked about some monster criminals, murderers, who were shown to be "YY". I thought I recalled that men were "XY" and women were "XX". YY's would be genetic monsters, no? They should be locked up or killed. They are not really human if they exist. I wonder if my neighbor was joking.>

This is not joke. There are males or females who have an exta x or an extra y, however, they are not criminals just because they have that something extra. In fact, unless you take the tests, no one can tell. Many famous athletes (mals and females) have had an extra y or x and they were accomplished individuals and famous. The theory that advanced that idea has been proven false.

This has been one of the ugliest myths to combat. We went through this when I was getting my BS in Criminal Justice and it just made for heated debates for which there was no scientific basis (their being monsters or criminals). Their criminality rates were not significantly higher than the rest of the population. I don't have the stats at hand. Can anybody get them?

Elvira