predeterminants

"It isn't a logical thought process that leads many people to become conservative or liberal, but reactions and emotions coming out of the good old reptilian part of the human hindbrain that kind of "guide" people to the facts that fits some genetic predeterminants."

Scientists can tell who's conservative: They're the ones who blink and sweat a lot when startled. Ann Althouse 2008

It isn't a logical thought process that leads many people to become conservative or liberal, but reactions and emotions coming out of the good old reptilian part of the human hindbrain that kind of "guide" people to the facts that fits some genetic predeterminants.

Scientists can tell who's conservative: They're the ones who blink and sweat a lot when startled. Ann Althouse 2008

Study identifies genetic predeterminants for diabetes in African-Americans

Scientific Blogging 2009

e has many postdeterminants and few predeterminants, where a predeterminant or postdeterminant of an event is a set of conditions that are jointly sufficient, given the laws of nature, for the occurrence of the event.

My Shasta Daisy 2009