Well, yea. Passed-down culture can substitute for the instincts quite well (provided that it is taken up without questioning)
Passed-laterally culture is different, everyone is trying to talk anyone who’s not a direct descendant into non-reproducing, for quite good reasons too.
I wouldn’t want to live in the biologically sensible world, though—in which an animal as intelligent as human would perhaps have their drive to reproduce (not to be confused with sex drive) be as strong as fear of death, with the obvious outcome—extreme overpopulation followed by the population crash.
Well, yea. Passed-down culture can substitute for the instincts quite well (provided that it is taken up without questioning)
Passed-laterally culture is different, everyone is trying to talk anyone who’s not a direct descendant into non-reproducing, for quite good reasons too.
I wouldn’t want to live in the biologically sensible world, though—in which an animal as intelligent as human would perhaps have their drive to reproduce (not to be confused with sex drive) be as strong as fear of death, with the obvious outcome—extreme overpopulation followed by the population crash.