MU study: Laziness is genetic
If you’re, how should we say this, motivationally challenged, you might be able to blame your parents, a new University of Missouri study suggests. Frank Booth, a professor in the MU veterinary school, and post-doctoral fellow Michael Roberts, published a report showing that they could selectively breed rats that were very lazy or very active.
The breeding suggests that genetics play a role in how motivated the rats are, and it could be indicative of genetic laziness in humans. “We have shown that it is possible to be genetically predisposed to being lazy,” Booth said in a statement announcing the study’s publication.
