Zer0

Genetics play no role in how our brains process music, it's all down to the person's environment. However a person's musical tastes can be inherited from their parents through the environment and culture handed down to them. This is not always the case though as a person can be more influenced by culture and environments outside the home.

My musical taste has very little influence by my parents.

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EPOCH6

I'm inclined to agree with this. My own taste in music has always mirrored my environment. Growing up it was classic rock because that's what my parents played, rebelling against my parents it was always punk and metal, post-highschool partying/drugs phase was experimental electronic music, moving to the city it was instrumental hip-hop, drum & bass, breakcore, and now moving back to the country, living like my parents lived when they were my age, I've found myself back where I started with classic rock. So at first glance it would be easy to say that it's hereditary because nowadays I basically listen to the same music that my parents listen to, but looking back at the bigger picture it was always the environment that steered my taste.

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