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Study: Bullies have higher

self-esteem, social status
and lower levels of
depression
A new study has found that the reason bullying persists
is because the seeds of it can be found in our genes.

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Aug. 3, 2015, 4:03 PM EDT / Source: TODAY

By Scott Stump

Is there a secret bully inside all of us?

A new study has found that the reason youth

bullying persists is because the seeds of it may be
found in our genes due to evolution. Titled
"Survival of the Fittest and the Sexiest," the study
by researchers at Simon Fraser University in British
Columbia, Canada, also found that bullies had the
lowest levels of depression, the highest levels of