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People with antisocial personalities actually seem to have a reproductive advantage over the rest of us, according to a new study led by a research team out of Amsterdam.
Scientists reached this conclusion by performing a genetic analysis on more than 31,000 individuals. Specifically, they looked at what’s called the genetic correlation between antisocial traits and reproductive outcomes (namely, age at first birth and total number of children born). In other words, what they were doing here was looking to see how much overlap there is between the genes linked to having an antisocial personality and the genes linked to reproducing early and often.
Scientists reached this conclusion by performing a genetic analysis on more than 31,000 individuals. Specifically, they looked at what’s called the genetic correlation between antisocial traits and reproductive outcomes (namely, age at first birth and total number of children born). In other words, what they were doing here was looking to see how much overlap there is between the genes linked to having an antisocial personality and the genes linked to reproducing early and often.