{"id":1307,"date":"2004-11-29T12:34:17","date_gmt":"2004-11-29T17:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/cheating_genes\/"},"modified":"2004-11-29T12:34:17","modified_gmt":"2004-11-29T17:34:17","slug":"cheating_genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/11\/cheating_genes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheating Genes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cheating women can try to <a title=\"Women can blame unfaithfulness on genes - research\" href=\"http:\/\/www.capetimes.co.za\/index.php?fSectionId=272&#038;fArticleId=2321125\">blame unfaithfulness on their genes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Professor Tim Spector, director of the Twin Research Unit at St Thomas Hospital in London, said that about 40% of the variation in faithfulness was due to genes. The figure means that if a woman is unfaithful, her identical twin sister would be twice as likely as average to be unfaithful as well.<br \/>\nA non-identical twin sister of an unfaithful woman would be 50% more likely to have an affair outside marriage.<br \/>\nAttempts to link infidelity directly to a specific gene or set of genes failed, although the researchers said that they did manage to locate some of the traits to three of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The theory?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The study, published in the journal <i>Twin Research<\/i>, suggests that a genetic predisposition toward female infidelity may have evolved because it was important in allowing women married to &#8220;low status&#8221; men to surreptitiously become pregnant to &#8220;high status&#8221; males.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about that, but I&#8217;m not qualified to opine on female motivations.  I have yet to be sold on much of this genetics-controls-behavior research.  It typically offers more questions than answers.  But perhaps we&#8217;ll get a more complete picture over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/11\/cheating_genes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Cheating Genes\"><p>Cheating women can try to blame unfaithfulness on their genes: Professor Tim Spector, director of the Twin Research Unit at St Thomas Hospital in London, said that about 40% of the variation in faithfulness was due to genes. The figure means that if a woman is unfaithful, her identical twin sister would be twice as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}