By David Lieberman
Do judges' judgements rely on how lengthy it really is because they ate their lunch? Is the easiest position for a girl to seduce a guy on a rickety bridge? Does unfastened will rather exist? This ebook explores how our genes and studies make sure our behaviour in addition to discussing the results determinism can have on own accountability and morality.
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Perhaps they produce more dopamine, or perhaps there are differences in how their brains process this dopamine. Whatever the underlying mechanism, addiction appears to be due, at least in part, to genetic differences in the production of dopamine. Asian flush syndrome At the beginning of this section we asked why some people eat too much, drink too much or smoke too much. At least part of the answer, we’ve now suggested, lies not in their willpower but in their genes. One source of support for this interpretation has come from research into why alcoholism rates are far higher in Western countries than in East Asia.
34 Their environment had almost no influence; it was their genes that counted. (Recall, though, that this means that the environment wasn’t responsible for differences in their weight. Obesity has more than doubled over the last 40 years, far too short a time for there to have been any meaningful change in the gene pool. The increase in obesity over this period is undoubtedly due to changes in the environment. At any given time, though, the reason some people become obese and others don’t is because of differences in their genes.
They mated these foxes, and then selected whichever of their offspring were the friendliest and so on. By the sixth generation they had produced a group which they called the domesticated elite, which are eager to establish human contact, whimpering to attract attention and sniffing and licking experimenters like dogs. They start displaying this kind of behavior before they are one month old. By the tenth generation, 18 per cent of fox pups were elite; by the 20th, the figure had reached 35 per cent.
