I have always felt that genes do affect our thinking and that we do not
all start off at birth with a blank slate

Still whatever your views you might find this video and full article
listed interesting.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/02/11/politics.genes/index.html#cnnST
CVideo

Many scientists believe how our brains work is influenced by our genes
-- that to some extent we're hard-wired from birth to process
information in a certain way.

This doesn't mean, these scientists say, genes dictate how we think;
environment clearly plays a huge role. Nor does it mean there's a
Republican gene or a Democrat gene. Scientists who espouse the genetics-
politics connection say that probably hundreds of genes influence how we
think and how we see the world. Watch more about how your genes can
influence how you vote.

"bernardZ" nospam.com> wrote

IMHO - fwliw, I certainly agree with above.
Genes, genetics present from conception, certainly
have evidence they play a role in final product - adult.
Nurturing also plays a huge role.
(and IMHO - perhaps some initial 'imprinting' done early
((first 3, 6, 12, & 24 months)) also has unique role).

I think most parents in a blended family will have evidence.

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:25:00 +1100, bernardZ wrote:

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On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:25:00 +1100, bernardZ nospam.com>
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Perhaps believing in one form of politics is
like the "God Spot" below...

'God spot' is found in brain

Science Correspondent

LA Times, Wednesday 29 October 1997

SCIENTISTS believe they have discovered a
"God module" in the brain which could be
responsible for man's evolutionary instinct
to believe in religion.

A study of epileptics who are known to have
profoundly spiritual experiences has located
a circuit of nerves in the front of the brain
which appears to become electrically active
when they think about God.

The scientists said that although the
research and its conclusions are preliminary,
initial results suggest that the phenomenon
of religious belief is "hard-wired" into the
brain.

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