| "What 
      this seems to suggest is that the intellectual experience of a child is 
      generated by others." p. 
        92. "An 
        adult by contrast, generates his or her own intellectual challenges. The 
        'environment' is not some real inflexible thing: it is a unique set of 
        influences actively chosen by the actor himself or herself." "Having 
        a certain set of genes predisposes a person to experience a certain environment....The 
        genes are agents of nurture....Nature can act only via 
        nurture. It can act only by nudging people to seek out the environmental 
        influences that will satisfy their appetites."  p. 
        92-93 Matt 
        Ridley, The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture, (New York: Harper 
    Collins Press, 2003).  |