"Or it might indicate that you fall somewhere on the autism spectrum" Read more
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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… Read more
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… Read more
I agree with @Asmodaari that Jezebel could really use a science writer… Read more
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… Read more