0 the theory that physical factors (= facts or situations) decide how a person behaves, how intelligent they are, etc.: --
I don't think attributing basic aspects of human behaviour entirely to either social conditioning or biological determinism is realistic.
Different male and female behaviour can be attributed to differences in sex. This type of explanation is known as biological determinism.
Maybe it's cultural conditioning or biological determinism, but women are carers and the people around them benefit materially from that care.
He argues powerfully against the purely chemical or biological determinism that holds that men are the helpless, testosterone-fuelled prisoners of their genes.
These writers question the biological determinism implicit in the automatic equation of woman as powerless and man as powerful.
