Define personality. In my book, dogs have personalities. Still, rather than about personality I was talking about basic pulsions, namely those directly related

Define personality. In my book, dogs have personalities. Still, rather than about personality I was talking about basic pulsions, namely those directly related to survival and reproduction. Contrary to rms, I easily concede that ideas are faster to fill survival needs. But where do those needs come from? Why do we care about surviving, as individuals and as a species? We wouldn't ever have put our minds to work on the problem of survival if the visceral will for survival wasn't already there. I argued that our genetic conditionings related to sexual selection persist because our genes haven't had time to 'learn' their increasing irrelevance. The slowness of genetic adaptation is an argument in favor, not against, the prevalence of genetic heritage as a factor (certainly not the only one) in our drives and personalities.