Humans Choose Friends With Similar DNA 204
KentuckyFC writes "The study of social networks has long shown that people tend to pick friends who are similar to them — birds of a feather stick together (PDF). Now a study of the genomes of almost 2000 Americans has found that those who are friends also share remarkable genetic similarities. 'Pairs of friends are, on average, as genetically similar to one another as fourth cousins,' the study concludes. By contrast, strangers share few genetic similarities. The result seems to confirm a 30-year-old theory that a person's genes causes them to seek out circumstances that are compatible with their phenotype. If that's the case, then people with similar genes should end up in similar environments and so be more likely to become friends."
How dare you!? (Score:5, Funny)
How dare you insult my friends by comparing them to me!
Re:How dare you!? (Score:5, Funny)
How dare you insult my friends by comparing them to me!
I wouldn't have anyone like myself as a friend.
It's normal. (Score:5, Funny)
After all, many friends fuck their friends' wives, so after a couple of generations, they are all a happy family.
Re:Say it with me... (Score:4, Funny)
... white people are racist
how dare you say white people are racist!
Indeed! This is quite possibly, without exaggeration, the single most cruel and inhumane thing you can do to another person. Accusing another person of racism is so low that, I daresay, it ought to be considered a hate crime! I know I certainly won't stand for being accused of racism. I am a white human being with dignity, and I deserve better than that!
Re:How dare you!? (Score:5, Funny)
Or, as Groucho Marx once put it, "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."