Love is a question of DNA
And it is a researcher from Florida State University, Mohamed Kabbaj, the proponent of a new theory on the subject. Love, according to him, would be a genetic mechanism. To trigger the feeling between two people would in fact be variations at the level of the DNA that would activate two key genes for the behaviors of union and fidelity.
The study in question was conducted on animal guinea pigs, the mice of the American prairies, chosen not by chance but as animals capable of establishing monogamous and lasting relationships, and was recently made public in the magazine Nature Neuroscience.
The results of the research showed that the formation of a stable couple in these rodents occurs immediately after the animals have mated and in conjunction with genomic modifications that increase the activity of two genes: oxytocin and vasopressin.
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