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Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene'
An anonymous reader writes "Liberals may owe their political outlook partly to their genetic make-up, according to new research from the University of California, San Diego, and Harvard University. Ideology is affected not just by social factors, but also by a dopamine receptor gene called DRD4. The study's authors say this is the first research to identify a specific gene that predisposes people to certain political views."
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Previous research has identified a connection between a variant of this gene and novelty-seeking behavior, and this behavior has previously been associated with personality traits related to political liberalism.
"I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"
Tagged troll forwhy?! Insightful, surely.
Why is this modded troll?
Well, if they "cure conservatism" I suppose the human population will quickly fall apart as such conservative views as "don't spend more than you have" will stay gone and society will devolve quickly into a poverty that no one will be able to "cure."