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Ehrlich and Feldman wrote:

Ehrlich and Feldman wrote:

*"A central theme of the flood of literature in recent years in '[[evolutionary psychology]]' and '[[behavioral genetics]]' is that much or even most human behavior has been programmed into the human genome by [[natural selection]]. We show that this conclusion is without basis."

*"A central theme of the flood of literature in recent years in '[[evolutionary psychology]]' and '[[behavioral genetics]]' is that much or even most human behavior has been programmed into the human [[genome]] by [[natural selection]]. We show that this conclusion is without basis."

They argued that:

They argued that:

* very visible evolutionary psychologists, such as MIT's Pinker, do not acknowledge "the importance of interactions and of cultural evolution" but promote the idea of a genetically fixed human nature. Circumstances and experiences contribute to each individual's nature rather than all of us having a human nature that has been genetically fixed by our evolutionary history, they observed. [http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2003/january29/cultures-129.html]

* very visible evolutionary psychologists, such as MIT's Pinker, do not acknowledge "the importance of interactions and of [[cultural evolution]]" but promote the idea of a genetically fixed [[human nature]]. Circumstances and experiences contribute to each individual's nature rather than all of us having a human nature that has been genetically fixed by our evolutionary history, they observed. [http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2003/january29/cultures-129.html]