Genetics vs Environment

[The Andy-Man]

Could this behavior be learned by animals in a clan?

trhis is what i am really getting at.

I mean, even domestic pets show signs of 'humaness'

[Ben Kenobi]

If you want a similar explanation to UR's statement, go
here:

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by obiwan18
Aaah.
Sociobiology.

UR: is there a gene coding maternal instincts?

What about the species which do not follow the pattern?

Could this behavior be learned by animals in a clan?

I am pretty sure chimp girls aren't taught by chimp mothers how to rear the young. So maternal instincts seem to be genetically determined. Maybe there is a master regulator gene on the Y chromosome that does a whole bunch of things.

Humans are a lot more complicated. So it's easier to look at our closest cousins first.

[MattyBoy]

Personaly, i think even if we are only our genetics, this fact should be quietly ignored for the sake of humanity.

I like the way you put it.

What you need to do is find examples of identical twins brought up separately. I don't know where you should look, though.

[The Andy-Man]

Originally posted by MattyBoy

I like the way you put it.

What you need to do is find examples of identical twins brought up separately. I don't know where you should look, though.

I was thinking something similar, don't know where either

though you always here people say to seperated twins both chose similar wives and like the same colour, though i am not sure how valid those situations are, i mean, these similarities could appear more significant then they are.

I am pretty sure chimp girls aren't taught by chimp mothers how to rear the young.

But they probably observed how to be a parent from their own expiriences as a child, maybe comparing the different parenting of a chimp bought up in its natural environment, and of a chimp bought up in a zoo by humans.