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What Do You Mean, Bisexual People Are ‘Risk-Taking’? Why Genetic Studies about Sexuality Can Be Fraught

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Scientific American

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4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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A recent GWAS investigation on risk-taking and bisexuality made some assumptions that some experts don’t agree with. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The link between our genes and ourselves is complicated.

0:32.7

We know the DNA coded in ourselves is part of what makes each of us who we are.

0:36.8

But genes aren't the whole story and genetic studies have big limitations.

0:41.2

Right, especially when it comes to analyzing nuanced human identities like, for instance,

0:45.8

sexual orientation.

0:47.2

Uh-oh.

0:48.2

Yeah.

0:49.2

What can genetic research really tell us about the origins of our own attractions, behaviors, and desires? Can't

0:55.0

really tell us about the origins of our own attractions, behaviors, and desires? And more importantly, what can't it explain?

0:58.0

Am I genetically predisposed to dyeing my hair different colors all the time,

1:01.0

like Clementine and the eternal

1:03.0

sunshine of the spotless mind. I'm not sure that scientists have

1:06.3

investigated that one quite yet but some researchers have started using genetic

1:10.0

study techniques in interesting ways.

1:13.2

We're talking bisexuality, risk-taking behavior,

1:15.9

and evolutionary hunches extrapolated a bit too far.

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