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In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

— Gregory Bateson

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✓Similar Perspectives

Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.

— Fareed Zakaria

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

— Steven Pinker

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

— Edward T. Hall

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

— Thomas Carlyle

The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.

— Sam Kean

Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

— Tariq Ramadan

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

— C. J. Cherryh

The great thing about a culture is that once you really get it going, it evolves on its own. It's self-organizing. It's dynamic. It just feeds on itself.

— John Mackey

My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or same country you're the same. Even three kids brought up in the same family with the same genes, they are not the same. Just consider a human a human.

— Marjane Satrapi

✗Opposing Perspectives

If two very different people pool their DNA, they'll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills.

— Helen Fisher