The cheating gene.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Brief Article

It may be that the explanation for Bill Clinton's sexual naughtiness does not lie in the psychological traumas of his childhood identified in his memoir. Instead, recent research by scientists at Emory University, reported by David Wahlberg of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, suggests that his genes may have been the guilty party. The research found that the meadow vole, an animal previously notorious for its Clintonian tendencies, suddenly became passionately monogamous when its brain's reward center was injected with...