Culture is a phenomenon that is over and above biology and it is not transmitted genetically. All normal babies everywhere are born, in regard to culture, love blank sheets of paper. What gets written on this blank paper depends on where and when the baby is born.

It depends on what culture the baby is born into. Every newborn baby is the product of millions of years of biological evolution during which humans became human; that is to say, they developed the ability to be bearers of culture. This capacity for culture is, to be sure, genetically transmitted as part of the organism, but culture itself must be learned