{"id":1324,"date":"2007-11-14T20:30:45","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T18:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/11\/14\/whos-the-boss\/"},"modified":"2007-11-15T13:47:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T11:47:36","slug":"whos-the-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/11\/whos-the-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s the boss?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A news focus in Science Magazine asks &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/318\/5852\/910\">Who&#8217;s the queen? Ask the genes<\/a>&#8221; and shows new research that in some social insects nature, not nurture, determines whether offspring becomes worker or royalty.<br \/>\nI am not aware of any genetic studies of bosses but there might be also inherited personality traits in humans that favor a certain behavior.<br \/>\nGiven my interest in a German gene-test law and the corresponding passivity of the German government, I am now proposing a &#8220;Biobank German Bundestag&#8221; that will allow me to go for gene variants that make our representatives different from us, the commonalty. I am sure that we will have a gene test law within 12 months &#8230;<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 10.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A news focus in Science Magazine asks &#8220;Who&#8217;s the queen? Ask the genes&#8221; and shows new research that in some social insects nature, not nurture, determines whether offspring becomes worker or royalty. I am not aware of any genetic studies of bosses but there might be also inherited personality traits in humans that favor a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/11\/whos-the-boss\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who&#8217;s the boss?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[1383,1375,366,1377,1376],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-anti_discrimination","tag-gene_test_law","tag-gene_variants","tag-german_bundestag","tag-personality_traits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}