Margaret Mead Quote

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.


As quoted in Familiar Medical Quotations (1968) by Maurice Benjamin Strauss, p. 288


Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.