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This might seem a technical problem, not an English question, but when you say biological make-up, does it mean "your inherited traits" such as physical or psychological inheritance from your ancestors?
ex)Whereas general anthropology combines both nature and culture in its conceptual framework, social and cultural anthropologists are concerned with human belief and behavior that are not explicable in terms of biology. The basic assumption in sociocultural anthropology is that the range of variation in human belief and behavior cannot be explained or reduced to biology. This does not mean that social and cultural anthropologists deny that biology has any influence on social life;to do so would be ridiculous. What it does mean is that they treat human biological make-up as a constant, and attempt to explain the range of social and cultural variation that is not reducible to biology. Actually, this merely confirms the importance of a fundamental principle of logic: a constant cannot explain variation, the constant in this case being biology.
ex)Whereas general anthropology combines both nature and culture in its conceptual framework, social and cultural anthropologists are concerned with human belief and behavior that are not explicable in terms of biology. The basic assumption in sociocultural anthropology is that the range of variation in human belief and behavior cannot be explained or reduced to biology. This does not mean that social and cultural anthropologists deny that biology has any influence on social life;to do so would be ridiculous. What it does mean is that they treat human biological make-up as a constant, and attempt to explain the range of social and cultural variation that is not reducible to biology. Actually, this merely confirms the importance of a fundamental principle of logic: a constant cannot explain variation, the constant in this case being biology.