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New studies on perfectionism show it may have a genetic link. Other studies suggest that parenting plays a role. But there are upsides and downsides to the findings. Melinda Beck has details on Lunch Break. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204840504578085802751238578.html#articleTabs%3Darticle

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Those who doubt that human aggression is an evolved trait should spend more time with chimpanzees and wolvesWe, Too, Are Violent AnimalBy JANE GOODALL, RICHARD WRANGHAM and DALE PETERSON

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Where does human savagery come from? The animal behaviorist Marc Bekoff, writing in Psychology Today after last month's awful events in Newtown, Conn., echoed a common view: It can't possibly come from nature or evolution. Harsh aggression, he wrote, is "extremely rare" in nonhuman animals, while violence is merely an odd feature of our own species, produced by a few wicked people. If only we could "rewild our hearts," he concluded, we might harness our "inborn goodness and optimism" and thereby return to our "nice, kind, compassionate, empathic" original selves. If only if it were that simple. Calm an…