Allan Nash

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Behaviors were normal but occurred at the wrong time and place—say, giving subordination gestures to pipsqueaks half their size, threatening alphas they should cower before. Mothers and peers don’t teach the motoric features of fixed action patterns; those are hardwired. They teach when, where, and to whom—the appropriate context for those behaviors.
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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