In medicine, we have a traditional reverence for familial traits. "Heredity" provides the second section in a routine patient chart, only preceded by "Cause of consultation".

A good family history provides information on first degree relatives – work ability, diseases, medication, age at events. A myocardial infarct at 27 is more impressive than a myocardial infarct at 87.

The physician usually concentrates on disease, disability, deficiency, and death. However, the sociobiological heirloom may be positive.

If a bent and crumpled crofter from Fjeldby mentions by the way that his only child is a professor of mathematics in a first-rate university, he has also provided a piece of information on the biosocial makeup of the parents.

Brilliant patients provide a risk for themselves and their doctors. The ability to focus on one goal and repress other goals form an "executive soul". Their focus is seldom on own signs and symptoms. History taking becomes a matter of delicacy.

Literature provides some conspicuous cases. The captain had to re-question Jonah; the prophet did not give full information spontaneously.

The intelligent patient is prone to dupe himself and then sell his own interpretation to his doctor. The captain was not the right specialist for Jonah. Both of them nearly perished.

Eric Berne suggests that life games are inherited. I am inclined to believe him. The career of Abimelech is impressive (Judges 9) – a "hard gamesman".

The interplay between biological heredity, psychological heredity, and social heredity is complex. The Aryan Jew is not white, nor colorless, but blond and blue-eyed. The African Jew has a darker color. The Red Indian Jew and the Chinese Jew are also thought to have specific features. It is essential to discriminate between species, race (though mainly a ghost of mind), religion, culture, traditions.

The interplay may be elucidated by means of an animal model. During thousands of years, nearly all wolves with social competence have turned to a living by honest work as "dogs". Only a minute remnant are still calling themselves "native wolves" and claim by non-elected deputies an exclusive right to live on cattle theft and poaching.

The claim of the wolves elucidates ethic, ethnic and legal problems of man.