Diversity mongers lament.  It turns out that people’s good friends tend to share a lot of genes with them. Are we hard wired to associate with people who share our genetic traits? CNN reports:  A new study published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science suggests friends may be more than just people you lean on when you're not strong; they might actually help you carry on -- genetically speaking. "Looking across the whole genome, we find that on average, we are genetically similar to our friends," said James Fowler, coauthor of the study and professor of medical genetics and political science at UC San Diego. "We have more DNA in common with the people we pick as friends than we do with strangers in the same population." Over the past decade, Fowler and coauthor Nicholas Christakis, professor of sociology, evolutionary biology and medicine at Yale, have studied the science behind social networks....(Read Full Post)