[decimon]

Cog ignition ping.

[rightwingcrazy]

Perhaps it’s necessary for survival. If they were too intelligent, they might regret being mice.

[Secret Agent Man]

Probably not a good thing to mess with this one.

“They’re loose, they’re organized, and they took my car keys.”

[William Tell]

Mrs. Tell said, “That’s just what we need. Smart mice.”

[allmendream]

Most likely a case of antagonistic pleotropy, where the gene has more than one function.

But even if this gene limits memorization, that too may be a beneficial function.

A mouse without this gene may remember better, advantageous in mazes and experiments based upon logic, perhaps not so much so in the wild, where past experience is not always a sure guide to future expectations.

Imagine being a prisoner of your memory. “No! Cannot ask a girl out on a date, the last time I did that the gal said no, and that hurt! Never going to do THAT again!”

[lone star annie]

Genes limit them in RATS too. Look at the Kennedys, Cuomos and Reids.

[Moonman62]

A big question this research raises is why would we, or mice, have a gene that makes us less smart ...

I'm going to guess that it has something to do with politics.

[DannyTN]

“Pinky, I know what we are going to do tomorrow night....try to take over the world!!!”

[DannyTN]

Maybe the researchers should turn off RGS14 in their own brains, and then they will smart enough to figure out what it was for.

[hope_dies_last]

Same gene that causes liberalism.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Flowers for Algernon

[rfp1234]

Gene limits learning and memory in mice

[calex59]

Ok, now we know what is wrong with lefties, they all have this itelligent suppressing gene in their brains.

[SunkenCiv]

hippocampus site:freerepublic.com

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