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roundly asserts: "All bodily structures and functions, without exception, are

products of heredity realized in some sequence of environments. So are all
forms of behavior, without exception." This simply isn't true and it is lam-
entable that a man of Dobzhansky's standing should dogmatically assert it.
If in fact behavior is heritable, what are the units of behavior which are
passed on-for presumably there are units? No one has suggested an an-
swer. 373
The manifest fact is that the genetic mechanism exhibits not the
smallest indication of being able to transmit specific forms of behavior
from one generation to another. The genetic mechanism just produces
protein. It may affect behavior in general by producing greater amounts

of certain hormones; it may make an animal more aggressive or passive,
for instance, or more dependent on its mother. But there is no evidence
that it can transmit a specific form of behavior, such as the string of ac-
tions required to build a nest, from one generation to another. If behavior
really is inherited, then what is the unit of behavior transmitted from one
generation to another? These are assumed; nobody has been able to an-
swer this question.

Evolutionists' Confessions About the
Altruism in Living Things
Contrary to what evolutionists maintain, nature is not a battle-

ground. Quite the opposite: Nature is full of instances of acts of altruism
and rational cooperation, even at the price of the death of the individuals
concerned in order to save the family, or their coming to harm. These
countless examples of altruism, self-sacrifice and solidarity disprove evo-
lutionists' claims that nature is simply a battleground, with the selfish,
those putting their own interests first, surviving.
John Maynard Smith, a famous evolutionist:

Here one of the key questions has to do with altruism: How is it that nat-
ural selection can favor patterns of behavior that apparently do not favor
the survival of the individual? 374