timtyler comments on Open Thread: August 2009 - Less Wrong
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I am not sure what you mean - or how it is relevant. Plenty of behaviour has a genetic basis. Eating behaviour and sexual behaviour, for instance. If you look at all the reflexes and instincts out there, you will see that many types of behaviour have a genetic basis.
Even if everything was learned (the "blank slate" hypothesis) - so what? How would that be relevant to the idea of cultural inheritance being significant?