Monsterhood need not be anatomically obvious.
Autism is another form of monsterhood.
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNewsMolt/idUKL1635102020080617
Gay men and straight women share brain detail
Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:49am BST

LONDON (Reuters) - Gay men and straight women share some characteristics in the area of the brain responsible for emotion, mood and
anxiety, researchers said on Monday in a study highlighting the potential biological underpinning of sexuality.

Brain scans also showed the same symmetry among lesbians and straight men, the researchers wrote in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.

"The observations cannot be easily attributed to perception or behavior," the researchers from Sweden's Karolinska Institute wrote.
"Whether they may relate to processes laid down during the fetal or postnatal development is an open question."

A number of studies have looked at the roles genetic, biological and environmental factors play in sexual orientation but little
evidence exists that any plays an all-important role. Many scientists believe both nature and nurture play a part.

Brain scans of 90 volunteers showed that the brains of heterosexual men and homosexual women were slightly asymmetric with the right
hemisphere slightly larger than the left, Ivanka Savic and Pers Lindstrom wrote. The brains of gay men and heterosexual women were
not.

Then they measured blood flow to the amygdala -- the area key for the "fight-or-flight" response -- and found it was wired in a
similar fashion in gay men and heterosexual women as well as lesbians and heterosexual men.

Sir Frederick schreef:

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:00:04 +0200, Leon Hoeneveld wrote:

So? Not seeing the brain does not make it more flexible.
In the same way the shape and condition of a nose is
something that can "grow".

"Sir Frederick" fuzzysys.com> wrote in message
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Monsters, like Count Dracula, the Wolfman and Frankenstein's monster,
do exist, but currently only in our imaginations and fitful dreams at night.

If we continue to love to watch the Adam's Family and the Munsters
and Dead like Me, then surely we all love monsters enough to some
day bioengineer them into this, the real world.

Since man is soon to stop killing his fellow man, (or face extinction by
nuclear war or even by terrorrists that terrorized us so much that no one
goes to airports anymore) it could give our military something to do, anway

Sir Frederick schreef:

I thought that you wanted to show that there is no role for nurture.
That a brain-condition is something you have from the start.
I don't think so. You might have a tendency, but what will grow out of
it is still open to the environment.

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:51:47 -0700, Sir Frederick wrote:

It is not.

Sir Frederick wrote:

False analogy. Similarity and dissimilarity of shape maps to similarity
of behaviour. No significance can be attributed to either.