科學(xué)60秒:龍生龍,鳳生鳳,懶人的兒子跑不動(dòng)
Always finding excuses to skip the gym? Congrats—you might be able to blame your genes. Because the mere desire to exercise may be inherited, at least in mice. So says a study in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
The experiment started back in 1993 with 224 mice, divided into eight groups. In four of the groups, the researchers ____1____ the males and females that logged the most distance on their exercise wheels. For the other four groups, they just randomly ___2_____ the mice.
Forty-three generations later, the mice ____3____ from long distance runners are voluntarily running seven miles a day—three times as far as their lazy ____4____. And they cover those miles in different ways—some are marathoners, while others, especially females, run faster for fewer hours.
The running mice do have physical advantages, like better endurance and less body fat. But it's not just fitness. Previous studies suggest something's changing in the mice's brains, too, turning them into ____5____. And since mice and humans have similar genes, our itch to hit the track might also depend on how often mom and dad liked to throw on their running shoes.
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