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Science Has Yet To Isolate The Godiva Chocolate Or Prada Gene, But That Doesn't Mean Your Weakness For Pricey Swag Isn't Woven Into Your Dna. According To A New Study Of Identical Twins, It's Less Tv Ads Or Labor Day Sales That Make You Buy The Things You Do Than The Tastes And Temperaments That Are Already Part Of You At Birth.

Jellyfish Serve As A Model For Bioengineers For The Same Reason Yeast Were Once So Valuable To Geneticists: They're Simple To Deconstruct.

There Are A Lot Of Downsides To Being Male. We Age Faster And Die Younger. But Give Us This: We're Lifetime Baby-making Machines. Women's Reproductive Abilities Start To Wane When They're As Young As 35. Men? We're Good To Go Pretty Much Till We're Dead.

The Mind And The Body Are Inextricably Entwined, And Rarely Are Their Inseparability Clearer Than When We're Under Some Kind Of Mental Pressure. The Moment We Start Trying To Learn A New Skill, Make A Decision Or Otherwise Think On Our Feet, Our Nervous System Reacts - With Accelerated Pulse Rate, Increased Respiration, Even Sweating.

Older Fatherhood Isn't All Bad: Testosterone Rates Drop About 1% Per Year As Men Age, Making Them Less Reactive And More Patient, And A Professionally Established Middle-aged Man Is Likely To Have More Time And Money To Devote To His Kids Than A Twenty-something Who's Just Getting Started.