<p>Ok, here is what I don’t get. Everyone wants to say a kid is like the parents because of genetics, right? Well isn’t this notion a little ignorant? The parents did raise the kid right? The parents and their ‘ways’ were apart of the child’s early programming. This is the same as the bio-rythms of the mother’s circulatory system, respiration, digestion, nutrient feed, etc. having an effect on pre-natal neurological developement. Genes are very important I will not doubt this, but SO many more things contribute to heritage.</p>
<p>My point is heritable does not necessarily mean genetic. Especially when you consider the child is picking up habits, patterns and ‘ways’ already used by those pocessing similar genotype. This means an animal will always learn quicker from another animal that uses, deals with, or has otherwise adapted to the expression of common genes. Now you can move beyond this and consider twins raised separately and adoptive children. Still, I think you come to see similar themes. What we are is much more than the sum of our enzymes and protiens, or certainly money.</p>