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What is the most gene determinant that evolutionary psychologists have went with human behavior?
When thinking about my dog and dogs before her, I’m just struck by how affixed their behaviors are by genes. Not just aggression and desire to socialize, but their needs for physical activity, the particular ways they like to exercise, what they like to do outside.
Then I think about myself. Could human genes be so determinant? Do humans have an essentially fixed type or category of activity that they must do to be happy, which is informed by their ancestral background? And I just wonder how specific these could be. Should farmer ancestors spend more time around dirt and animals? Do those who have musical genes need to be musical to be fully happy? Etc. How specific are these gene-determined affinities?
I dimly recall that people do better eating ancestral diets, i.e. Asians are healthier eating rice and Europeans on wheat.
Other than that, I can't think of anything that doesn't generalize to * all* humans, such as a need for socialization.
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