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03/30/2008: "Basic attitudes encoded in our genes"

A study of thousands of American twins is challenging the orthodoxy that a person's experience and upbringing exclusively determine their political views.

The researchers say that how an individual reacts to social issues - whether as a radical or a conservative - is also influenced by their genes. This influence may then predispose them to vote Conservative, Labour, or Liberal Democrat.

[ Everything is in the genes. This is natural selection. This is nature. Only pompous humans who are afraid of their own insufficiency want to deny this. ]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7315656.stm