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by brodo 2460 days ago
In the nature vs nurture debate, every time someone argues for all nature or all nurture it’s an ideological position. That biology has no influence on behavior is as absurd as that society has none. The division into nature and nurture is also not as clean-cut as people think it is. There are many things in human culture that are that way because of biology and our culture influences our biology over the long run.
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Plus unless the person arguing is a biologist backed by some hard evidence, it is only ideology talking.
Unless it's James Watson, then shut him up, fire him, and take all his awards away.

Plenty of biologists see what happens, and toe the line so they can keep their lives and pay their mortgages.

Hopefully we can just all agree that no amount of nurture will turn a duck into a swan or vice versa.