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biological determinism  

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  • The term biological determinism refers to claims that most human characteristics—physical, mental, and personality based—are determined at conception by hereditary factors passed from parent to offspring during reproduction. Of course, all human traits are ultimately based in the material nature of our being organisms (e.g., memorizing a poem involves changing molecular configurations at synapses, where nerve cells interact), but the term biological determinism has come to imply a rigid causation largely unaffected by environmental factors. [Source: Encyclopedia of Disability; Biological Determinism]

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