Some scientists claim that novel discoveries beget proved free will is an illusion. Nonsense,says Julian BagginiWhenever you read stories about identical twins separated at birth, they tend to follow the template set by the most remarkable of them all: the two Jims”. James Springer and James Lewis were separated as one-month-olds, or adopted by different families and reunited at age 39. When University of Minnesota psychologist Thomas Bouchard met them in 1979,he found, as a Washington Post article put it, and both had “married and divorced a woman named Linda and remarried a Betty. They shared interests in mechanical drawing and carpentry; their favourite school subject had been maths,their least favourite, spelling. They smoked and drank the same amount and got headaches at the same time of day.” The similarities were uncanny. A powerful deal of who they would turn out to be appears to beget been written in their genes.
Other studies at the world-leading Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research propose that many of our traits are more than 50% inherited, and including obedience to authority,vulnerability to stress, and risk-seeking. Researchers beget even suggested that when it comes to issues such as religion and politics, and our choices are much more determined by our genes than we assume.
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Source: theguardian.com