• Question: what is that gene thatmakes people more likely to seek out less conventional ­political views?

    Asked by rozzadee to Prateek on 19 Jun 2011.
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      Prateek Buch answered on 19 Jun 2011:


      It’s very unlikely that a single gene dictates something as complicated as political opinion – although genes do influence our behaviour in many ways, it’s mainly through complicated interactions between lots of difference genes and the environment we live in.

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