The Babel effect

Daniel Hecht

first published 2001 Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2001 438 pages

Is violence a virus? Can your genes make you a killer? Why are we so willing to hurt each other? In *The Babel Effect*, the brilliant husband-and-wife research team of Ryan and Jessamine McCloud are charged with answering these urgent questions. Beginning as a neurological study of murderers on death row, their research explodes into an investigation into the biomedical foundations of human history. The quest takes t...

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Babel Effect edition · 2002 · Pan Macmillan · 448 pages · 9780330353755
The Babel Effect paperback · 2002 · Pocket Books · 528 pages · 9780743449540
Babel Effect edition · 2001 · Macmillan Publishers Limited · 438 pages · 9780333904985
The Babel effect edition · 2001 · Crown Publishers · 438 pages

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