双语哈评 |成功与否,取决于基因?!( 二 )

杜克大学医学院教授丹尼尔·贝尔斯基(Daniel Belsky)和同事一起进行了一项纵向研究,对照分析了新西兰达尼丁市918位居民的数据,发现杰出的社会经济成就与特定基因有关。他们的结论是:成功由基因决定。

longitudinal:纵向的

Belsky: Though DNA isn’t destiny, it does have something to say about the kind of people we become and what we achieve. When we studied this existing data set from a group of people who were all born in a single city and then surveyed at regular intervals throughout the first four decades of their lives, we found that those who carried certain genetic variants—ones that had already been linked to educational attainment in other studies—hit developmental benchmarks earlier as children and held higher aspirations as teenagers. Then, as adults, they attained more education, held more