Thug geneticist?

There has been talk about rock star scientists and what not on Science Blogs. Rock stars? Isn't that so baby boomer? So let me rephrase it: who is the thug geneticist? I'll nominate Bruce Lahn, an evolutionary genomicist at the University of Chicago. According to Chicago Lahn is down with "Get Rich or Die Tryin'," by 50 Cent, so we know he already likes it hard-core hip hop style. Also, points for the fact that Lahn is an intellectual mugger who will leave you feeling violated.

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Seed has published an interview with Bruce Lahn. It's not all that interested, and, frankly, the boys at Gene Expression could have done much better.
The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating article on Bruce Lahn today. Last September, Lahn announced in Science that he had isolated two brain genes in humans which had undergone recent evolution, but only in certain populations.
SEED hits the major points, and Paabo confirms:
Last September, Bruce Lahn and colleagues published a couple of papers on the evolution of two genes responsible for brain development in humans (ASPM and Microcephalin

I'm not sure that I would characterize Kary Mullis as a "thug", but he's certainly got some unappealing traits.

Gene-Unit? :)