> So it’s still unclear to me what this is a list of. The context behind the list is that huge swaths of the academy believe that humans are born as blank slat

> So it’s still unclear to me what this is a list of. The context behind the list is that huge swaths of the academy believe that humans are born as blank slates and culture is purely a result of socialization. Hunger isn’t on the list because even the blank slatists believe that all humans experience hunger, so there’s no need to point it out. But plenty of people believe that child rearing arrangements are merely an accident of history, so pointing out that there are child rearing patterns that are universal across cultures which have no plausible way of influencing each other is a strong argument against that explanation.