Tuesday, November 2, 2010

On linkage of a specific gene to any complex behavioral trait.

"A Gene That Accounts for Less Than One Percent of the Variance Found in Scores on Psychological Questionnaires Designed to Measure a Factor called Self-Transcendence, Which Can Signify Everything from Belonging to the Green Party to Believing in ESP, According to One Unpublished, Unreplicated Study."

- Carl Zimmer's call to rename Hamer's book The God Gene: How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes

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