Science (Washington, D.C., Jan. 7)–Monogamy may have a telltale signature of gene activity, according to two researchers at the University of Texas, Austin. “The fact that they got any common genes at all is interesting,” says Lisa Stubbs, a developmental geneticist at Illinois. “It is a superb data set and an expert analysis,” she says, “(but) the authors have not actually uncovered many important biological insights into monogamy.”
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