Twin modelling reveals partly distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment

When we talk about music, we are almost automatically talking about variation: diverse kinds of music and different levels of musical ability come to mind. But what about love of music? Sure, some people enjoy music more than others, but I didn’t know that this variation is vast and that it seems to have heritable components until I read a new paper in Nature Communications. The authors used twin studies and cool objective measures of music enjoyment to explore the…

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