Musical Ability Seems to Be 50 Percent Genetic »
Posted By KLopez 11 months ago in Science & TechnologyJ. S. Bach’s father and uncles were accomplished musicians, Charlie Parker’s old man played piano on the vaudeville circuit, Paul McCartney’s pop blew the trumpet in a band, and Prince got his name from his dad’s jazz trio. Given these and countless other examples, people have often assumed that musical talent runs in families. Now a study of 15 Finnish families, published in the Journal of Medical Genetics , provides the first proof that musical ability is indeed linked to genes.
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