Geneticists argue about the influence of the so-called explorer gene, a mutant strand of DNA present in 20 percent of the global population. The gene is linked to traits of curiosity and restlessness, and found more frequently in societies with histories of long migration. Likewise, anthropologists divide personality types into neophobes (those who fear novelty), neophiles (those who seek it) and neophiliacs (those who are addicted to it). Every day, it seems, we’re discovering new ways humans are hardwired to engage in novelty—to seek out the new, whatever the cost.
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