...the imperatives created by our genetic history. Wilson answers this question negatively. He writes: "Genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very...their effects on the human gene pool. . . . Human behavior — like the deepest capacities for emotional response which drive and guide it — is the...

...is so because culture, although not tightly bound by the genes, nevertheless is bound by them. The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will he constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. The brain is a product of evolution....

...an illusion fobbed off on us by our genes to get us to cooperate" (Ruse and Wilson 1985:51) and that "genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very...accordance with their effects on the human gene pool" (Wilson 1978:167). Dennett points out, however, that people in fact do have wrong ethical beliefs (in...

...directly to human nature, explaining and illuminating our most intimate and essential aspects: The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long,...accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. The brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior - like the deepest capacities for emotional response...

...human nature and behavior is that natural selection shapes human perceiving, thinking, and acting. "The genes hold culture on a leash. . . .The leash is very...in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool."5'' Put another way, we are what we are because of our biology, specifically our genes. The human...

...theory of human behavior. 'The genes hold culture on a leash', he writes in his book On Human Nature. 'The leash is very long but inevitably values will...in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool'.32 Wilson's arguments about human behavior, extrapolated from his research on insect behavior,...

...gain a direction and momentum of its own and completely replace genetic evolution? I think not. The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long,...accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. (1978: 167, quoted in Durham 1991: 34) Durham comments, Contained within the image of genes holding...

...gain a direction and momentum of its own and completely replace genetic evolution? 1 think not. The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long,...accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. On Human Nature 1978:167. 256 WILSON, WILLIAM JULIUS William Julius Wilson 1935US sociologist 1 The...

...But this idea is not seriously pursued, except to note that "the cultural evolution of higher ethical values. . . . will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool," leading Wilson to the reminder that "morality has no other demonstrable ultimate function" than (what...

...far away from their genetic beginnings. In an oft-quoted passage, EO Wilson claimed otherwise: The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long,...accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. (Wilson 1978: 167) This leash. I am claiming, is indefinitely long, in the sense that the constraints...