>Cultural values are more complex than genetic make up. In the same way that a hologram has greater volume than the 2D film that produced it. "Culture" is the

>Cultural values are more complex than genetic make up. In the same way that a hologram has greater volume than the 2D film that produced it. "Culture" is the collective expression of shared preferences. Country A has a culture of coffee consumption, because the people there like coffee, because the population possesses an above average expression of gene CR22423 subtly changes how caffeine and dopamine interact leading to increased pleasure seeking. Then some undergrad comes along and makes the point that Country A has a "coffee culture" because it's "more widely available" and "climate factors", when in reality it's the gene driving the behavior that lead to the increased demand which lead to increased cultivation which self-reenforced because Tribe A was hyped up on coffee so they conquered Tribe B and bred their women further spreading the _coffee preference gene_ so that the modern population is now largely descended from the coffee addicts. It's just a simplified example, but the point is that culture is just an abstraction layer running on top of a collective set of shared preferences