Are Your Political Views in Your Genes?
January 7, 2015
Most of us would like to think that we arrive at our political views by careful reasoning and unbiased examination of the evidence. But in a classic study, John Alford, a political scientist at Rice University, showed that identical twins, who share all the same genes, are more likely to share political views than fraternal twins, who share only about 50 percent of their genes.
