Monozygotic Twin Study

In the study done by the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, and Canada they focused on our preferences and how we choose the people we involve ourselves with. What we often don’t notice is that we tend to pick based one what is most closely related to us. Usually people’s preferences are based on background or their views, but recently scientist see that it can also be related to genes. There are many other studies that come to this conclusion we find ways to relate through scent, face perception, IQ and even personality.
Furthermore, they did an abundance of test to see if spouses had been more similar in heritable or less heritable items. They did an experiment where they took the face of other people and then their own and …show more content…
The finding shows the same results for the resemblance in spouses and best friends. Monozygotic twin chose their partners and friends more according to how they related to their co-twin than dizygotic. The Genetic Similarity Theory proves that we choose to mate and become friends with people so that we ensure our genes will be passed on in the future. Also, variance choice can be impacted by the views of one’s family, the unique environment, and even chance when picking a future partner.
In addition, I found this to be interesting especially when it started to talk about twin studies. I’m a fraternal twin myself so I felt that I could connect with it, and I can see where the similarities and differences come in when choosing a partner in the future. His past partners have all been my friends, which have similar interest to me. Also, when looking for a future partner I always look to those who have similar interest as me, because I feel we would relate more and that would make a relationship last longer, so I guess in the future maybe I could look for more heritable