Found: A New ‘Wanderlust Gene’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 08.07.09 | 9:03 AM ET
Scientists at the University of British Columbia identified it in the stickleback fish, which, of course, is now my all-time favorite fish. Wondering about a wanderlust gene in humans? Scientists may already have discovered that, too.
Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
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