I’d guess that, except as far as physical attractiveness is concerned¹, socialization is much much much more relevant than DNA. A clone of Casanova raised in a poor, devoutly religious family in an Islamic country wouldn’t become terribly good at picking up girls.
Yes, in our DNA.
Our DNA can give different degrees of bias towards different competitive strategies. It doesn’t determine status or behavior in a given situation.
I think that was the point.
As a reply to the quoted context the point was James made was false.
I’d guess that, except as far as physical attractiveness is concerned¹, socialization is much much much more relevant than DNA. A clone of Casanova raised in a poor, devoutly religious family in an Islamic country wouldn’t become terribly good at picking up girls.
¹And even there, grooming does a lot.