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'Humans are programmed to kill and anyone could commit murder in the right circumstances, a scientist claims. Professor David Buss, an academic at the University of Texas, argued in a new book that killing is part of human nature. His book, The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill, argues that 91% of men and 84% of women have had fantasies about killing someone. It rejected the conventional view that people are driven to kill by influences such as child abuse, images in the media or culture Thousands of years ago killing an enemy would boost a man's social status and improve his chances of attracting a mate, the book argued. Murderers' genes won the evolutionary battle over those of their victims and the instinct to kill now lies dormant in all of us, Prof Buss argued.
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