Well here's your Wednesday Fun Fact: Scientists have found a gene that they believe has a direct link to how monogamous a person is. Ladies and gentlemen put your hands together for the Vasopressin Receptor Gene! The Jezebel article states,

The male brain's "area for sexual pursuit" is still 2.5 times greater than that of the female brain. But according to neuropsychiatrist Dr. Louann Brizendine, author of The Male Brain, men are still naturally inclined to search for a partner and effectively mate for life... In humans they've identified around 17 different lengths of the vasopressin receptor gene, and studies echo the vole experiment's findings: Men with longer versions of the gene in question tend to be in happy, successful marriages, whereas the guys with the shorter gene are more likely to be bachelors.

This is uber-interesting! It leads me to ask all sorts of questions (I've been having a lot of metaphysical quandaries lately.) As humans what separates us from our animal counterparts is our brain and the ability to have intelligent (but most of the times moronic) thought. Was the Vasopressin Receptor Gene there all along? Was it bigger? Have we shrunken it? Hypothetically speaking if our bodies have stopped evolving because of our minds then our minds might still be evolving. Have we developed to the state that only our minds are evolving and soon we will be divided, as a society, not by our bodies but by our minds? I think it's quite possible that, with the choices a person is offered, we've developed or excluded certain sensory preceptors in our brains. (ie I've managed to constantly fight the urge to kick people's luggage and children's rolly backpacks. I mean seriously, why the fuck do those things exist except to trip people?!) Via Jezebel