The Paleolithic Paradigm

The Paleolithic Paradigm Takes Us One Step Further In The Nature/Nurture Debate. Certainly A Certain Percentage Of Our Behaviors Are Biologically Based. However Culture Has The Power To Override Much In Genetic Commands. The Amish Exemplify This No Matter How Much We Qualify Them As Quaint. Painting With A Wide Post-Modern Paint Brush Stocker Takes On A Journey Through Four Cultures To Show How Different People Can Be. He Offers The Analogy: Our Genetic Structure Is The Framework Of Any House. How We Cover And Decorate That Frame Is Often The Product Of Ancient Traditions. However We Are All Products Of The Same Cognitive Processes Thus Explaining Why We Take Ideas Put Into Our Heads As Children To The Grave Whether We Accept Them Reject Them Or Alter Them. It Is This Commonality The Author Examines. Accordingly He Wants To Know If We Understand Our Cognition Processes Can We Change Out Behavior At Will?