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#211 — The Nature of Human Nature

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Genetics Is Mostly Responsible for Those Differences Between People

Genetics is largely responsible for those differences between people. So if you say height is eighty ninety per cent peritable, it doesn't mean i grew to six wat six feet because of my gens. And the other four inches were added by the environment. We're not talking about things that everyone shares, which are also genetically determined - having a head or having arms and legs,. Or being bipeedle, or having bilateral symmetry. These are things that virtually everyone has who is intact at birth....

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