On dogs and man.

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Watching a bit of tube while waking up this morning, I happened to flick to a channel I rarely if ever have watched. On it was a program concerning how dogs may have been domesticated. In the show, Russian scientists had collected a number of wild foxes. They breed the ones which, initially, showed little or no signs of aggression to man or fear of man. They kept breeding this way. After a few generations, those foxes became not just neutral, but interested in people. After fifty generations, their physical characteristics also changed, taking on forms more representative of... domestic dogs! To counter and test, they also bread the foxes that were the most aggressive toward people. In studies, at various points, they realized something. The difference, whatever the genetic realities, had a specific biological process in common. The difference was the production of adrenaline. I would almost bet, too, that if they looked, they would have seen a difference in testosterone. 

No, men are not animals. However, I would suggest that we have similar biochemical processes. Something I have noted, after looking over some personal genetic traits with various studies on the human genome, is a high probability that I am very "tolerant" to adrenalin, and testosterone. In other words, it does not affect me as deeply as it does most men. I have plenty of both, maybe too much, but my body does not have a common reaction to it. I do not become hyper aggressive, I can control that much more readily than John Doe. Actually, my increase in size along with having white aspects in my hair at an early age, both correlate with the notion, though there are other traits. Interestingly, the foxes were initially black. When they began being bread for civility, their fur also began to go white. 

Hey, just... kicking around ideas. 

 Anyway, if this is all a given, there is one more step. Most people who go through trauma can come back from it. They, like all problem people, have to hit bottom. Perhaps my reaction to these biochemicals simply does not allow me to hit bottom. I end up sleeping or staying awake longer periods as my body does not know how to deal with the elevated doses or crashing down from that. It is all just speculation, but it does have some merit.