the problem is it's _not_ a roll of dice

how many tries will sub saharans need to have to make a chinese civilization?

indefinite, until their genes change

Displaced ethnicities create similar cultures where ever you put them. For examples, Haiti and the other afro carribeans make typically African societies. The white South African settlers created highly productive and advanced societies just like in Europe, and just like in North America and Australia

the problem with that argument is the continuation of culture

it's not fair

True, it is transplanting of culture

How would you create an experiment around this? Culture is incredibly heritable whether it's genes or not.

you can't

but you don't need to either

lol

if these people bring tha twith you

with them*

then why would you want that..

Lmao

show me the country built by these people that you want to move to

obviously it's genes

but it IS also the environment

I am confused how the mechanics work tho, I know it’s genes, but do the genes merely produce character and personality traits, attributes and preferences that make people build societies a certain way?

I don't know what you're asking

@Boniface The point of understanding the root of all human conduct, behavior, cultural, social and all things related too genetics is to come to a complete and full view of the human being as a multi layered and complex being that has it's complete emergence from the basis of his DNA from 2 shared parents. You can never understand what humans are, what humans do, and why humans do until you understand this fact. Then from here you can explain why certain actions, tendencies and even oddities or counter intuitive behaviors arise in man.

Idea's such as tabla rasa have done a great deal of damage given the false view of humans it purports. Leftism for example is a rotten apple born from the tree of this manner of thinking. They did not know man as he truly is and upon this hypothesis much speculation was had, and upon much speculation many ideas and remedies were born, and among these come the kind that have given birth to the end of western civilization and who knows where it will end. Possibly extinction.

Genes make people do things, but how? Does it make them think certain thoughts?

And change their emotions to those thoughts?

if you put the greeks (todays, or ancient) into scandinavia and the scandinavians in greece, they will change behavior

make entails no choice

I disagree with that

yes environment plus genes= likely reaction

but not certain

it's a degree of what can I do, what are others doing that change what I do, how fast do things degrade, how much free time do I have, etc.

it's too complex I think

to answer like that

@snake It's more like a probability scale on the likelyhood of what you would do in a given environment.

it's genes playing on the environment

The more informed your gene's are (adapted too) any given environment the less energy you have to spend thinking about what to do as the answers will come more natural and with little thought. The opposite is also true. This is the human body showing it's evolutionary practice in action and one of those benefits is energy conservation.

I also think people do things for different reasons

so it's not like you could answer it like that

yes ofc, and again this is a probability scale of likelihood, not a certainty

I didn't reply to you btw

for example you don't think of new ways to turn on the lights at home.

I know I could have spent my life in many different ways, still with the same want for some things

but there are also things I would never do I think