Firstly that's not what evolutionary psychology is.
Secondly, inheriting charateristics and personality traits such as violence a lack of empathy etc, is totally different from inheriting behaviour patterns, like killing people.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:36, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Yes, that's true
That's why I said the scriptwriters would have grossly over-extrapolated. If anything, you'd probably expect an "inherited" behaviour pattern to be due to environmental influences than genetic, so not really "inherited" in the sense of the word we're discussing here.

And I admit my understanding of the distinction between inheriting character traits and evolutionary psychology is ropey (I realise the two are related but not the same), having not read all that much about it. I just thought I'd throw the idea in there for general interest.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 13:15, Reply)