Stanford University put out a blog post yesterday describing an article they found describing a "warrior gene" called MAOA, and the variation MAOA-L makes a person "prone to risky behavior".
There wasn't much of a difference between those who took a "riskier" choice than those who didn't both of whom carried the MAOA-L gene, but they saw that in a situation where there was a good potential for winning, the people who had the MAOA-L gene would take the chance more often than the ones who had the other variant called the MAOA-H gene.
This is all well and good, but I don't think it shows a whole lot towards the "warrior" actions they make the article seem like it's about. What they focus on in the real article is "neuroeconomics". This word sounds like a bad idea already, you can't determine economics with genes. It seems silly. This also seems like they're stretching for new traits to link genes to.
I wonder if they could apply this gene to winning, not i the warrior form but say like winning a game show. While I was reading this it made me think of deal or no deal, and I'm curious if maybe the people who choose to continue and venture on may have this gene.
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