How much of what we do is the result of those around us? Would you know how to walk on two legs if you didn't see your parents do it first? Would you eat your food by picking it up to your mouth if you had never seen someone do it before? The way we act and learn in this world is through the instruction of others. As the feral children video and article showed, with an animal family and not a human family, those children developed the habits and mannerisms of their animal companions. As humans we adapt to the others around us, we don't have a genetic make-up of how we will go about acting. As a society we chose how we were going to act as a collective. We developed a culture. But these feral children show us that those choices we made on how to act were not guided by any primal instinct, we simply made the choice that made sense at the time, and that is what we follow. Humans are nurtured as they grow to act in the ways that their environment does. If people around a human baby walk on two legs, soon the baby will observe and follow suite.
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