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Wednesday, January 24th, 2018

Friends Are More Similar Genetically Than Strangers, Study Says.

Author:     Jamie Ducharme
Source:     Time
Publication Date:     January 12, 2018
 Link: Friends Are More Similar Genetically Than Strangers, Study Says.
Stephan:   Here is a very interesting well-conducted study about social relationships. It needs to be replicated of course, but it is quite solid. That said, I don't think this is the full story. In my view it misses what may be the dispositive variable: linkage at the level of nonlocal consciousness. If the reincarnation research is correct, and I think it is, we may have relationships that cross multiple incarnations.

Rearview shot of two young friends spending time together in nature Credit: Time

You may have more in common with your friends than you think, according to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Your genes may be similar, too.

Past research has suggested that people tend to be somewhat genetically similar to their spouses and adult friends, likely because humans naturally gravitate toward people with whom they have something in common. But how and why does this subconscious sorting happen? Researchers from Stanford, Duke and the University of Wisconsin—Madison studied 5,000 pairs of adolescent friends using data from Add Health, a long-term study of people who were in grades seven through 12 during the 1994-1995 school year. They ran a number of genetic comparisons, seeking to learn more about pairs of friends and schoolmates.

Overall, the researchers found that friends were more genetically similar than random pairs of people, and about two-thirds as similar as the average married […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 7:19 pm

    If reincarnation does exist, I see no reason for a human t come back as a human again. For that mater, I do not see the reasons for a human to come back to this planet at all, especially if one has experienced the horrors of being human and can evolve to a higher plane of consciousness on another galaxy far, far away from this one in a very different form. I do not plan to ever come back here and would regret it very much if I was forced too, but I believe we will still have free will and not be forced to do anything our consciousness does not want after death of the body, as our non-local consciousness joins the cosmic consciousness of the Universe.