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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe The 72- year-old who, along with Francis Crick, is credited with working out the structure of DNA, provoked outrage among his audience at the
University of California, Berkeley, to whom he also suggested that thin women are unhappy and showed pictures of model Kate Moss to illustrate his point. Some of the audience walked out.
Since the lecture, Watson has refused to give media interviews. A spokesman at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where Watson is president, said he would discuss his work when he publishes a
paper on the subject, probably this spring. The paper is expected to describe research on a gene, _pom-C_, which plays a role in the production of certain hormones. These include leptin,
which influences fat metabolism and has been implicated in some depressive disorders, and melanin, the skin pigment. In his lecture, Watson reported the results of experiments in which men
were injected with melanin and experienced increased sex drive. He argued that exposure to sunlight would increase melanin levels and produce a surge in libido. This is a preview of
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