Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:32 PM 11/30/2000 +0100, Alan Hull wrote: >I'm sorry Paul but I don't understand your problem with that. >Everybody has a natural born ability for something and it is my >understanding that these abilities are contained in a genetic code that >determines behaviour and ability and physical characteristics. It is >also my understanding that this genetic code is hereditry. I am >certainly no expert on this and maybe I am confused between DNA and the >genetic spiral. But surely it follows that if there is a heredity >connection then groups of people isolated by language etc can form a >national characteristic caused by the prevelence of a certain gene. Fundamentally, no. You are wrong. Traits such as the ability to make precision instruments is not "genetic" but cultural. Read, inter multa alia, Stephen Jay Gould's THE MISMEASURE OF MAN for discussion. Now, one prominent public leader in this century HAS adopted your viewpoint. His name was Adolph Hitler. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!