If you’ve ever seen President Obama dance, you know that he got his rhythm gene from his mother. And according to a new study, that may explain all the difficulties he’s encountered in his first year in office.
LiveScience.com reports the rhythm-challenged details:
A study published in the Public Library of Science’s genetics journal in 2006 suggested that long ago the ability to dance was actually connected to the ability to survive.
According to the study, dancing was a way for our prehistoric ancestors to bond and communicate, particularly during tough times. As a result, scientists believe that early humans who were coordinated and rhythmic could have had an evolutionary advantage.
The researchers examined the DNA of a group of dancers and non-dancers and found that the dancers shared two genes associated with a predisposition for being good social communicators.
It was not reported if there were any genes associated with the inability to communicate without a Teleprompter.
Source: LiveScience.com
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According to that study's findings... Stippers who can work the pole will be able to survive ANYTHING thanks to their slutty, rhythmic ways. Famine, ninja attacks, atomic warfare, their uncles feeling on them when they were kids... Well, not so much that last one.
So recall the next time you are dirty dancing with some chick in a night club, it is not an honor to Patrick Wayne Swayze so much as it is an expression of science and evolution at work!
Side note: While I find the information interesting, it seems the researcher is still using the broken late 60s/early 70s view of genetics- one gene, one trait. We are much more complex then that! By design it seems...
So those"two genes associated with a predisposition for being good social communicators" may also be the same two that mean you like cabbage and can have long, shiny hair even in old age or the same two that lead to anti social actions and love of pet rats in other people. Humans can adapt their genetic code which they were born with to reflect different expressed traits based on personal actions, habits and practicing these choices.
I know dancers (male) who can't fight with s*it when they come to spar/work out in the gym. They lack all rhythm to strike with good timing not to get the 'flow' of grappling moves. I also train with some MMA cats who, when later hitting the bar and macking on some babes, can't move worth a tinker's damn on the dance floor (no rhythm) yet have great rhythm in a fight.
Jack Dempsey was like that apparently. He was aggressive, graceful and rhythmic in the ring but had two left feet on the dance floor. Odd... Figure that one out Science Guys!
He is sooooo Half-Honky!