Human universals

[andrewducker]

I've been involved in discussion with a few people about how much of human behaviour is genetic and how much is cultural. I tend to go for a 70-30 split in favour of genetics, with culture defining how we express the intrinsic nature (or fail to express it, depending).

If you're of the cultural persuasion, you'll find both this and this interesting.

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

The second of the articles you linked to used Chomsky's UG as an example of the sort of innate behavior he was talking about. Here's a very interesting link to a discussion of genetic determinism that also comments on Chomsky's UG