A man who knows he has this allele, she added, might be able to use the
knowledge to ignore tugs of restlessness he might feel in his marriage:
"You can say, ‘Oh, it is just my DNA, and I am going to ignore it.’ "…Fisher [an academic researcher], who described herself as a romantic, said she would not reject
a potential mate who has two copies of the risky allele. She paused,
then added: "But I might not start a joint bank account with them for
the first few years."
Here is the full story. Maybe they should put that on a T-shirt: "Oh, it is just my DNA, and I am going to ignore it."
Ha:
“Genesis Biolabs offers the first genetic screen for marital success!”
They screen for the “ruthlessness gene”. But if the “game” nerds are right, maybe ruthless people are better at attracting and keeping partners.
You could end up divorcing someone because of the same traits you screened them in for!
easy way to target people for hormone treatments….
(this locus has associations with other traits, including behavioral economic responses in stuff like the ‘dictator game’)
“Oh, it is just my DNA, and I am going to ignore it.”
Wouldn’t work on a tshirt, but damn that’s funny
“Clone me a dozen Pinkers and I guarantee they’ll all make the same decisions, and all tell you they told their genes to go jump in a lake!”
could Identical twins be used to test that theory? I have several twins in my family, and their all quite individual personality wise.
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