"...only one in two million people has what we call the "evil gene". Hitler had it, Walt Disney had it, and... Freddy Quimby has it." —Dr. Hibbert (The Simpsons, Season 5, Episode 20, The Boy Who Knew Too Much) The Evil Gene—Claiming Ownership Could a monster be swimming in the human gene pool? A spooky thought, but it's commanding increasing attention these days from a variety of scientists who study human and animal behavior. Debate on the topic dates to Darwin, but here of late, the noise reverberates with a louder and different tone through new venues in criminology, psychiatry, sociology, psychology, behavioral genetics and ethology, the science that studies behavioral differences between animal species. (Read more of Frank Stephenson's article here) Is There an Evil Gene? Robert Lee Hotz and John Johnson write in the Los Angeles Times that it may be possible for evil to be passed down genetically to family members. They examine families in which several generations have committed the same types of terrible crimes. (Read more at Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country here) There is an Evil Gene Chris Gorman, Harvard student, biologist and filmmaker explains the origin of the 2007 discovery of the epidemiological mapping of the evil inherited gene in humans.