evidence shows that we inherit and transmit behaviors, emotions…
Keyword behavior evidence shows that we inherit and transmit behaviors, emotions, beliefs and religions not through rational choice but through contagion.
— from Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)
In the book
An inclination is a disposition, a standing urge — like a clutch with a tendency to slip: not a fate, but a pull you must account for. We do inherit and transmit a great deal — behaviors, emotions, beliefs, even our religion pass down more than we like to think. But modern science draws the same picture with a kinder metaphor: the brain is a book whose rough first draft is written by your genes and then revised, chapter by chapter, by everything you experience and choose. — Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)