"The genes provide us the background of our general drives, and variations in these genes may explain various personality traits in humans, but ultimately our behavior is very much influenced by environmental factors," he said.The complexity of these interactions is such that genetic determinants in many cases have very limited predictive power. The old debate between determinism and free will is beginning to resolve itself into a muddle in the middle in which we can recognize and begin to define limits to both deterministic mechanisms and free will.
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