Research suggests that our fathers' genetic material has a stronger effect on the development of our instinctual behaviors (eating and mating), while the higher-order cognitive abilities (language, socialization, etc.) are the result of a greater contribution from our mothers. So now you know who to blame, and for what. [Via]
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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I still say that's not his baby.
So you mean Suri will not marry a series of beards?
So we are all effete brutes?
The milkman?
Maytag Man!
"Until I grew up I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like. Once you started meeting grown-ups life was much pleasanter."
It's terrible... but I find this to be true.
So the desire to have sex comes from dad, but the ability to talk your way into getting it comes from mom. Cool.
Ev psych fail. Be automatically suspicious of experimental findings that neatly slot into the behavioral models posited by such bastions of psychological understanding as King of Queens.
Nice Larkin-Stevenson ricochet, Balk.
Thank you for noticing!
Man hands on misery to man, it deepens like a coastal shelf,
Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
As the product of a still-slim nerd and an eternally optimistic former cheerleader-turned-writer, I am not displeased by this news at all.