Word: traits
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...notion that if a trait is genetic it is ineradicable or unmodifiable is, in fact, quite unscientific. Yet, consider the words "predetermined by biological fact" found on the cover of On Human Nature, or the quote, "We are bound as inextricably to our heritage as we are to the shapes of our eyes," from The Genesis Factor. Much of human sociobiology rests upon the speculative assumption of genetic control for social behavior (for which there is not one shred of evidence) with the explicit conclusion that the knowledge of the human genotype will place, limits on the possible forms...