Reply #11: Ever read Frank Sulloway (sp?) interesting reading on how

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birth order may influence allegience or rebellion from the family group.

Surely these things require learning...a capacity to realize where you are in a dominance hierarchy like a family and to make decisions about belonging or not undoubtedly based on that learning are not to hard to imagine riding upon heritable structures and functionability.

The real issue is such an idea can be presented in a testable manner that allows it's treatment within science. Stephen Jay Gould disliked evolutionary psychologist much for what he called just-so stories. That's a big part of what is going to create a clash that is going to be fun to watch.