Biological determinism is a canard that has repeatedly been explained away by evolutionary informed scientists since time immemorial. Humans are an inextricable mix of their genes and their environments. As a matter of fact, genes get turned on or off as a function of environmental inputs. Evolutionary-based cognitive computational systems take information from the environment to get activated. Natural selection itself, the foundational mechanism of evolution, is shaped by the selective forces within a specific environment. Hence, there is no such thing as biological determinism.
The Lincoln–Douglas debates (also known as The Great Debates of 1858) were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.
Firstly it meant a great expansion of British territorial claims in the new world. moreover the war generated substantial resenment towards the colonists among English leaders who where not satisfied with the financial and military help they had received from the colonists during the war . all these factors combined to persuade many English leaders that the colonies needed a major reorganization and that the central authority should be in London.
The proposition that he suggested was that the states should unite into a single union. What inspired him to propose this was the idea on how the Iroquois nation united five different Native-American nations under a single banner into a single union. Nobody supported this but eventually they started supporting the idea.
