What drives a serial killer? Hardwired instincts, symbolic triggers, and ritualized predation—unraveling ancestral imprints.

In particular, when the gene at a maternally imprinted locus is expressed, the copy of the imprinted gene from the mother is always turned "off," whereas the copy from the father is always turned ...

Violence does not emerge from a vacuum. It is rooted in deep-seated biological instincts, shaped by social alienation and ideological imprinting. Ethology—the study of animal behavior—offers ...