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You’re sitting on the couch, the fifth episode of your favorite television show is about to come on and for some reason, you haven’t moved a muscle since episode one. Your mom walks by and asks why you haven’t moved your lazy butt all morning. It turns out, it might not be your fault, It could in fact be her fault. Scientists have linked laziness to a gene that can be traced through family ancestry. In a video released be ASAPScience, one particular study uses mice to track laziness running through bloodlines. The active mice’s offspring ran further and more often.

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Another interesting study is in preliminary stages at the University of North Carolina. This study is attempting to link the correlation made with the mice to human behavior. The study will be conduced in a similar manner to the one preformed on mice, but humans will be substituted. The research team has laid out genome maps

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for test subjects and plans to monitor families to see if similar results occur. Prelimary results are showing that laziness can, in fact be traced back through genes. So remember, next time your mom or dad calls you lazy, turn the tables on them and ask them why they weren’t more active.

 

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