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Possible Monogamy Gene Found In People

Posted by kdawson on from the walking-the-line dept.

Calopteryx sends in a New Scientist summary of research from Sweden pointing toward the existence of a gene that influences monogamy in men. (The article doesn't mention women, and the study subjects were all men at least 5 years into a heterosexual relationship.) "There has been speculation about the role of the hormone vasopressin in humans ever since we discovered that variations in where receptors for the hormone are expressed makes prairie voles strictly monogamous but meadow voles promiscuous; vasopressin is related to the 'cuddle chemical' oxytocin. Now it seems variations in a section of the gene coding for a vasopressin receptor in people help to determine whether men are serial commitment-phobes or devoted husbands."

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            Sad news ... Don LaFontaine, dead at 68
    But, it turns out that's true.

    In a world where people are controlled by a facist goverment ... Becky Staylacey
    and Bob Gonaway run for their lives. Having chips implanted in them after the
    Korean War II: Total Nuclear Achievemnt, they struggle to find one to bring them
    peace. At the newly constructed Freedom tower in NYC, they find one called only
    ver. 13.0.0.0.0 who knows the secrets of the chips. Turns out megacoorp YahM00$
    and GoogZilla (formally Boobworks) implemented different derivations on a
    standards on supposedly redundant identity chips. Having one chip meet the other
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