Re: Are characteristics like wanting to walk barefoot inherited, or societal?

Date: Tue Mar 30 12:04:40 1999
Posted By: Jan Witkowski, Faculty. CSHL, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Area of science: Genetics
ID: 922705714.Ge

Message:


This is an example of naive genetic determinism based on small samples. If 
you surveyed, say, 10,000 8 year-old boys, you would find others who didn't 
want to wear shoes, irrespective of their heredity.  The boy's 
disinclination to wear shoes has nothing to do with his genetic background.

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