Capacity for exercise can be inherited: Finding suggests pharmaceutical drugs can be used to alter activity levels in humans

Biologists have found that voluntary activity, such as daily exercise, is a highly heritable trait that can be passed down genetically to successive generations. Working on mice in the lab, they found that activity level can be enhanced with selective breeding. Their experiments showed that mice that were bred to be high runners produced high-running offspring, indicating that the offspring had inherited the trait for activity.

Read the whole article on Science Daily

More from Science Daily