"...what answers we find satisfying will always depend on the questions we ask." (Rowland 2004: 11) Gene selectionist approaches in evolutionary theory entail genetic determinism. Gene selectionist approaches concerning the individual do not entail genetic determinism although genomic structure is highly influential on an individual. Moreover the popular doctrine and dogma of genetic determinism needs to be revised in order to lessen confusion and clarify what genetic determinism really is. One need only scrape the surface of …
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…much of life as we now know it has been determined by genetic selection. Genic selection is part of the process of understanding what makes us what we are, however it does not determine who we are or how we came to be on its own merits. Epigenesis however can attempt to weave genic selection and other studies into one synthesis in the search for understanding humans: our origins, our nature and our potential futures.