Daniel Moore

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The incest story neatly demonstrates the interdependence of nature and nurture. The incest avoidance mechanism is socially induced: You become sexually averse to your siblings during your childhood. In that sense there is nothing genetic about it. And yet it is genetic, for it is not taught: It just develops within the brain. The instinct not to mate with childhood companions is nature, but the features by which you recognize them are nurture.
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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