Word: biogrammar
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...other scholars with a nostalgia for primitive societies are Rutgers' Lionel Tiger and Robin Fox (who met, ironically enough, at the London Zoo). They too believe in implacable, ingrained patterns of behavior that they call "biogrammar." "A species is what it is because of the pattern of successful adaptation built into its genes," they wrote in The Imperial Animal. "It is programmed to grow and develop in a highly specific way." Aggression is central to man's emotional evolution and survival...
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