{"id":7406,"date":"2012-06-22T05:11:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T05:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7406"},"modified":"2012-06-22T05:11:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T05:11:22","slug":"twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/twins\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dnastructure1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dnastructure1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dnastructure\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dnastructure1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dnastructure1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dnastructure1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>From a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303552104577436333754014866.html?mod=googlenews_wsj#\">WSJ review<\/a> of a new book chronicling the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Minnesota study&#8217;s IQ results hit a nerve years before their publication in 1990, overshadowing other controversies that might have been. Many of its findings are bipartisan shockers. Take religion, which almost everyone attributes to &#8220;socialization.&#8221; Separated-twin data show that religiosity has a strong genetic component, especially in the long run: &#8220;Parents had less influence than they thought over their children&#8217;s religious activities and interests as they approached adolescence and adulthood.&#8221; The key caveat: While genes have a big effect on how religious you are, upbringing has a big effect on the brand of religion you accept. Identical separated sisters Debbie and Sharon &#8220;both liked the rituals and formality of religious services and holidays,&#8221; even though Debbie was a Jew and Sharon was a Christian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just another example of the \u2018God Gene\u2019 at work, I suppose, and, as such, just another reminder that there is little or no prospect of ever weaning mankind off religion (Professor Dawkins, please note).  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a WSJ review of a new book chronicling the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart: The Minnesota study&#8217;s IQ results hit a nerve years before their publication in 1990, overshadowing other controversies that might have been. Many of its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/twins\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[102,919],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7410,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406\/revisions\/7410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}