Noam Chomsky was concise on this point:<p>&gt; &quot;You find that people cooperate, you say, ‘Yeah, that contributes to their genes&#x27; perpetuating.’ You find that they fight, you say, ‘Sure, that’s obvious, because it means that their genes perpetuate and not somebody else&#x27;s. In fact, just about anything you find, you can make up some story for it.&quot;<p>Cordelia Fine also does a great breakdown of all of these &quot;monkey does this, therefore women shopping men guns&quot; arguments.<p>The nurture side of the debate has its &quot;no nature&quot; clowns, but the caricature by the top-level post is completely uncalled for in this context.