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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (85494)	1/2/2012 1:30:39 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 220280

IF such behavorial and environmental influences could be passed on genetically, then all wealthy people would bear children having a genetic advantage of accumulating wealth. I don't think Mq is saying that learned behavior is passed on genetically, but that humans must have inborn behavior qualities, it stands to reason, because animals do, and we're animals, too. We know from observation that some people have shorter attention spans and less ability to control their emotions, although we also know that this can be curbed if taught. It's very unfashionable to say that a man could be born randier, or a woman could be born randier, or that they could get together and have children that are twice as randy because they got a double copy, and anyway, no way to tell until scientists find a randiness gene -- or don't. But it's possible. Men and women will get together without benefit of marriage, whether they're doing it quietly without anybody knowing, or just out front with it because the neighbors don't care, they're all doing it, too. I favor the cultural explanation but the genetic explanation is possible. I do think that some wealthy families have a long history of accumulating wealth, power, prestige, and other accomplishments that seems to have a genetic component. The ones that come to mind are the Kennedies. An old fashioned expression, "blood will tell", in this context heredity. We Americans don't like to think that behavior can be inherited, it seems contrary to the belief that you can make yourself into anything you want if you just try hard enough.