“In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.”

— Gregory Bateson

Source: Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, 1979, p. 49

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