{"id":2934,"date":"2025-07-01T12:17:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/comedy-isnt-shaped-by-genetics\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T12:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:17:46","slug":"comedy-isnt-shaped-by-genetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/comedy-isnt-shaped-by-genetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy isn&#039;t shaped by genetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-07-01 12:17:44<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Humour doesn&#8217;t run in the family.<BR><br \/>\nA new study had revealed that comedy &#8211; unlike intelligence or eye colour &#8211; isn&#8217;t a matter of genetics in good news for those who hate their dad&#8217;s corny jokes.<BR><br \/>\nThe landmark research looked at the influence of genes and the environment on a person&#8217;s comedic talents, as scientists compared more than a thousand twins by getting them to create humorous captions for cartoons.<BR><br \/>\nThe study contained a mixture of identical and non-identical twins and found that individuals across all twin pairs shared the same level of comic ability. <BR><br \/>\nThis suggests that humour is shaped by environment instead of genetics.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Gil Greengross, who led the study for Aberystwyth University, said: &#8220;Despite humour&#8217;s importance, relatively little is known about how we can develop our sense of humour or why one sibling can be funny and another cannot.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Our study&#8217;s finding that these talents are not inherited is surprising, as it contradicts most research on the heritability of cognitive abilities such as creativity and mathematical skills.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;So, it is really fascinating. But since this is the first study of its kind, these results should be interpreted with caution.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-07-01 12:17:44 Humour doesn&#8217;t run in the family. A new study had revealed that comedy &#8211; unlike intelligence or eye colour &#8211; isn&#8217;t a matter of genetics in good news&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}