To what extent do genetic traits (such as ancestry) tell you about how a person looks?
Organizers want to curb inhospitable traits such as body odor and garlic breath.
It applies, too, to broader traits such as intelligence, personality and risk-taking.
But what if generalizing from other traits — such as high blood pressure, family history, and smoking — saved more lives?
Traits such as hair and eye colour, on the other hand, are controlled by DNA in the cell nucleus.
The idea is that it will also learn to understand tricksy human traits such as irony, jokes and puns.
For the vast majority of common traits, such as sociability, memory or creativity, heritability was closer to a quarter.
Perfectionism gets a daily rap on the knuckles partly because it's conflated with traits such as procrastination and OCD.
He has argued that traditionally feminine traits, such as agreeableness, are not historically correlated with professional success.
The cause of variations in traits such as openness and agreeableness, meanwhile, remains largely mysterious.
Many seek to measure touchy-feely traits such as personality, leadership potential and "emotional intelligence".
