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Are certain people born to be athletic? Or is it something that’s cultivated in them through experiences and the environment they grow up in? That’s the question that researchers out of Britain recently asked, and the answer wasn’t really surprising: Both play a role, but one aspect definitely has a larger impact on your exercise habits.
By studying both genetically identical as well as fraternal twins, recent studies have found that some people are inherently more drawn to sports than others, but that can change drastically depending on environmental factors. The researchers investigated the exercise habits of over 100 sets of twins, testing them for attributes such as how fidgety they were and how often they got physical activity, and they concluded that 73 percent of the differences in athleticism were down to environmental factors. They also found that exercise habits were nearly identical even in fraternal twins, who only share 50 percent of genes.
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