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Fashionpolice
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AVPR1a And The Genetics Of Generosity
Submitted by News Account on 6 December 2007 - 1:23pm. Science & Society
Are those inclined towards generosity genetically programmed to behave that way? A team of researchers believes this to be true based on their latest study.

http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/avpr1a_...netics_of_generosity

Interestingly enough the same gene has also been linked to a lower age of first sexual intercourse. Smile

AVPR1A and OXTR polymorphisms are associated with sexual and reproductive behavioral phenotypes in humans. Mutation in brief no. 981.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=PubMed&cmd=...e&list_uids=17939166

as well as autism and lots of other stuff....
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=re...efault&list_uids=552

Sometimes these science news articles crack me up - this one caught my eye, because someone recently questioned my generosity
 
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A single gene controlling a complex behavior such as generosity? Pretty funny!
 
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I'm sure one's whole socio-economic situation doesn't have anything to do with generosity... Anything to keep from being personally accountable for our actions.
 
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Interestingly enough the same gene has also been linked to a lower age of first sexual intercourse.

Does this make Ebeneezer a vrigin? Is that why he converted, to get laid?


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I'm sure one's whole socio-economic situation doesn't have anything to do with generosity... Anything to keep from being personally accountable for our actions.
Being unaccountable is the American way, commie!


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"I knew their tastes were very different and because the french like Dick a lot." -W.G.
 
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Originally posted by Fashionpolice:
AVPR1a And The Genetics Of Generosity
Submitted by News Account on 6 December 2007 - 1:23pm. Science & Society
Are those inclined towards generosity genetically programmed to behave that way? A team of researchers believes this to be true based on their latest study.

http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/avpr1a_...netics_of_generosity

Interestingly enough the same gene has also been linked to a lower age of first sexual intercourse. Smile

AVPR1A and OXTR polymorphisms are associated with sexual and reproductive behavioral phenotypes in humans. Mutation in brief no. 981.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=PubMed&cmd=...e&list_uids=17939166

as well as autism and lots of other stuff....
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=re...efault&list_uids=552

Sometimes these science news articles crack me up - this one caught my eye, because someone recently questioned my generosity


aha! there IS a link between L-O-V-E and V-O-L-E after all... I read the first link :-)
 
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So there they are, Generosity and Selfish genes, prodding us like shoulder demons & angels...
 
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