That means the study of the effects of environment upon behavior. To find the mechanisms that are the primary mechanism responsible for certain types of behavior. If you're brought up in a society where people have ten or fifteen wives that would be normal to your upbringing. If you're brought up in a society where a person has one wife, or if you're brought where religion dominates that will affect the value system of that society. So I'm a great believer in the effects of environment on human behavior; I don't think there's a republican gene or a democratic gene. I think all of the genes deliver is the color of the eyes, the shape of the head and the certain propensity, reflexes--yes, all that's controlled by genes, but values are learned.

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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized

QA#: 2012051307
Transcribed by Nathaniel Wotring