"Or it might indicate that you fall somewhere on the autism spectrum"

The study was actually about neither of those things, as I explained in another post. The authors of the study don't mention "laziness" at all in their abstract. I don't think Lindy read the original research paper. Voluntary wheel running is just one way to measure motivated behaviour in rats. Motivation and emotion…

Oh, boy. This study said nothing about a "laziness gene". It's about selectively breeding for certain motivated behaviours and then looking for differences in the physiology of animals with low or high levels of said behaviour. I realize it sounds like two sides of the same coin, but the study is looking at…

I agree with @Asmodaari that Jezebel could really use a science writer…

I don't even know where to begin with this article. First off, I will say that I'm a graduate student in psychology. I work for a supervisor who has spent the bulk of his career studying penises, although that is not what I study. Now, sexual selection is (according to some) a special kind of natural selection that…