Now that we have cloned many animals we are finding that far more behaviours are genetically determined than was previously thought.
Why should humans be so radically different?
John Thornton
On 16 Oct 2006 at 15:33, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> I sense that you are apprehensive about the idea of cognitive and
> psycho-motor differences among people being grounded in biology
> rather than solely in culture (learning), but a priori dismissal of the idea of
> inborn characteristics solely because some research in that area had
> questionable political connections in the past does not look like a very
> rational approach to science. For example, Noam Chomsky also took the
> 'inborn' position on language in his rebuttal of the learning only"
> behaviorism.
>
> Wojtek