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Originally Posted by Ustwo
- (Matt Ridley, Genome) he sites Rich Harris, The Nurture Assumption (1998) as his source for this factoid.
I can't say I've read the work personally, so I make no claims to its accuracy, but I don't find it shocking either. With so many personality traits obviously genetic in nature, why would negative traits like an abusive nature be exempt and purely nurture?
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It certainly wouldn't surprise me if abusing/being abused was heritable, but I wouldn't trust one popular press book citing another popular press book. I may have some references somewhere regarding this topic. I'll look around.