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The anti-hero, however, at best demonstrates a few underdeveloped traits, at worst, is totally inept.
To understand how traits pass from one living being to its descendants, we need to go back in time to the 19th century and a man named Gregor Mendel.
Almost 60 years before Darwin published his book, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed that creatures evolve by developing certain traits over their lifetimes and then passing those on to their offspring.
We manage to do this with little effort, inferring stable character traits from a single behavior, like a harsh word or a clumsy step.
But what if the researchers were interested in investigating some association between ancestry and the risk for certain genetic traits?
It's a crude but convenient proxy for more important factors, like muscle mass, enzyme level, genetic traits they just don't have time to look for.
But recently, scientists have identified nine physiological traits, ranging from genetic changes to alterations in a cell's regenerative ability that play a central role.
We started from the beginning, from common traits.
Common traits are comfortable because they are common, everyone has them.
They asked half of these participants to report their current personality traits, values, and preferences, along with what each of those metrics had been ten years before.
If you naturally pollinate a high-yielding variety together with a drought-resistant variety, you get a hybrid that inherits positive traits from both of its parents.
Are we just a bunch of traits?
But are there some distinctively Elizabethan features of your behavior, or Georgian of yours, that make us understand you better than just a bunch of traits?
These are free traits.
What are these free traits?
And we enact those free traits.
This gave rise to a phenomenon called “Hen Fever” or “The Fancy”, with farmers all over Europe striving to breed new varieties with particular combinations of traits.
With their high genetic diversity, many distinct traits, and only 7 months between generations, chickens were the perfect subject.
And the key takeaway I want to leave you with about those traits is that they're primarily not about how smart you are or about how much you know.
There is a subtler, quieter disadvantage in having those privileged traits and yet feeling history to be moving away from you; that while the past was hospitable to people like you, the future will be more hospitable to others; that the world is growing less familiar, less yours day by day.
They were testing tomatoes that they had picked, taking the flesh of their skin, putting it in a test tube, mixing it with chemicals to extract DNA and then using their home DNA copier to test those tomatoes for genetically engineered traits.
What that basically is saying is, those traits that define you, they're not really yours, they're just on loan to you for a little while from boys.
They'll call her feisty, because in our society, adding so-called male traits to girls is seen as an upgrade, seen as a bonus.
They can infer your sexual orientation, your personality traits, your political leanings.
But then I gathered the data, and I was stunned to find no correlation between those traits, because it turns out that agreeableness-disagreeableness is your outer veneer: How pleasant is it to interact with you?
They perceive the traits of leadership to be masculine in nature.
Like yourself, I'm a complex amalgam of positive and negative personality traits that emerge or not, depending on the circumstances."
It's actually a set of traits classified and studied by psychologists.
The fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual describes several traits associated with narcissistic personality disorder.
So can narcissists improve on those negative traits?
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