Is walking an inherited trait?

Personality traits are complex and research suggests that our traits are shaped by both inheritance and environmental factors.

Inherited behaviors are behaviors that are passed down genetically. Our genes control things like our hair type and color, our eye color, and our height—but we don’t usually think of them controlling our behavior. … These are our inherited behaviors.

“Genes passed on by father tend to be more active than the same gene from the mother.” Tooth size, jaw size, and the shape of teeth are all genetic, and children can inherit these characteristics from either parent, according to research that appeared in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Walking: A human is not born knowing how to walk, but a giraffe is. Hunting: Tigers have to be taught how to hunt, however baby turtles must learn to find their own food. Think about your own inherited and learned traits.

Children inherit eye color, skin pigmentation and vulnerability to specific illnesses from one or other parent, and they inherit specific personality traits in the same way. Personality is wired in, and no quirks of upbringing will change it.

Although we do inherit our genes, we do not inherit personality in any fixed sense. The effect of our genes on our behaviour is entirely dependent on the context of our life as it unfolds day to day. Based on your genes, no one can say what kind of human being you will turn out to be or what you will do in life.