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Successful cavemen were serial killers There’s a serial killer lurking inside you. That’s one of the provocative theories outlined by author Peter Vronsky in his authoritative tome, “Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present.” “Sons of Cain” takes readers from Stone Age brutality, to the “werewolves” and “vampires” whose exploits of rape, murder, necrophilia and cannibalism were memorialized in European folklore, to the atrocities of Ed Kemper and Jeffrey Dahmer. In addition to vividly cataloging 17,000 years of pathological homicide, Vronksy, the author of 2004’s seminal “Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters,” explores why people can’t seem to get enough of butchering each other. Perhaps the most chilling prospect that Vronsky’s 432-page volume raises is his convincing argument that all humans are genetically hardwired to become serial killers — and have to be “unmade” into law-abiding citizens. Mother Nature, according to Vronsky, inten...