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Football coach Vince Lombardi once said that “Leaders aren’t born, they are made.” Turns out he was wrong: For the first time ever, scientists have identified a specific DNA sequence associated with occupying a leadership position. Meet genotype rs4950, that “appears to be associated with the passing of leadership ability down through generations,” according to the study’s lead author. “The conventional wisdom — that leadership is a skill — remains largely true, but we show it is also, in part, a genetic trait.”
足球教練文斯-隆巴迪曾經說過，“領導不是天生的，是后天養成的。”事實證明他是錯誤的：科學家們首次發現了一個和領導力相關的特定DNA序列。基因rs4950“似乎和領導能力的遺傳有關，”引自這項研究的第一作者，“傳統觀點認為——領導力是一種技巧——這在很大程度上仍是事實，但我們的研究顯示它也有一部分是遺傳特質。”
Researchers from Harvard, NYU, and the University of California looked at data from large supply of DNA, looking at the career and relationship status of about 4,000 subjects. They found a significant association between rs4950 and leadership, which they measured by whether the person had taken on a supervisory role at work.
來自哈佛大學、紐約大學和加州大學的研究人員看著大量的DNA數據以及約4000例事業和感情的狀態。他們發現rs4950和領導力之間的重要聯系，他們是以被調查者是否在工作中承擔監管的角色來衡量的。
The study doesn’t completely repudiate Lombardi’s notion of leadership as a learned skill. But the inherited leadership trait matters, too.
這項研究并沒有完全否定Lombardi認為“領導力是可以學習的技能”的概念。但遺傳的領導特質也很重要。
Does that mean employers of the future will do a DNA test on job applicants to see if they’re leadership material? The study’s lead author acknowledges that concern。
這是否意味著未來的雇主會給求職者做DNA測試判斷他們有沒有當領導的潛質?該研究的第一作者坦誠有這種擔憂。
