Phenotype of the day
What could be more adaptive than this?
Dubbed ‘Gastrosexuals’ this new generation of men consider cooking more a hobby than a household chore and use their kitchen prowess to impress friends and prospective partners.
Men having the ability to cook is also now a key factor in attracting women along with salary, status, personality and appearance, according to new research.
I used to hate to cook. Now I find it gives me immense pleasure, though my daughters are not always enamored of my efforts.
For example, I think my fusion chicken is to die for. But you have to like cilantro and some folks are not genomically wired that way. You know who you are.
I work as an Assistant Professor in the Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (although this site and its content are my own).
In 2007 I became the fourth subject in Harvard geneticist George Church's Personal Genome Project. As the PGP moves forward, I am chronicling the dawn of personal genomics, that is, people obtaining their genomic information for whatever reason(s) and figuring out what to do with it. I am interested in the relevant technologies and especially the attendant privacy and other ethical/legal/social issues.
This blog may also discuss some of my non-genome interests or, to paraphrase Dwight Yoakam, "Guitars, Cadillacs, hillbilly music, etc etc."
The header image comes from the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's multimedia performance piece, "Ferocious Beauty: Genome."
August 5th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
I’ve been trying to push “gastro/a” as an alternative to “foodie,” but I think “gastrosexual” may be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.