I found a twin study that claims to have found a gene for "working together". They used identical and non-indentical twins and surveyed them about situations where they would have to get along in a group of people of various backgrounds. The identical twins were more likely to answer similarly than the non-indentical ones.
Although there may be a predisposition to introvertedness and extrovertedness, this study really can't claim to know much about the role of genes in working together. Environmental factors most likely come into play here more than genes. The author and researchers even admitted in the article that "other factors are still likely to dominate" and "it's hard to say to what extent genetics are responsible, and what extent their environment." So even though the first part of the article makes claims and shows results to support the claims, they contradict themselves at the end and admit they still don't know any more than they did when they started.
This is very interesting to me because I have a twin sister! We are non-identical and we could not be more different. We do work together very well but we are the complete opposite of one another and we always have extremely different ideas. This is why the statement about identical twins answering more similarly than non-identical doesn't surprise me. I agree with you that this doesn't prove much about the relation between genes and the likelihood of working together.
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