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I'm not saying I believe that the biological component is greater than the social, all I'm saying is that I believe it is more significant than Florence thinks it is. Determining just how significant is not easy, but I think Sparrow's idea warrants investigation.
Throughout cultures there are certain norms that seem to be more biologically based, such as the prohibition against incest, while prohibitions against robbery and murder could arise from social interactions. The drive toward socialization itself, however, is probably more a result of our evolutionary history. There's a natural feedback loop IMO that makes separation into components of biological and environment subsets difficult.
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