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Isn't, arguably, all of society a result of evolution?

• buboard 7y ago
  cultures are created and die at a rate much higher than evolutionary timescales
  • vermilingua 7y ago
    But the structures that give rise to cultures are a direct result of the evolutionary process.
    • buboard 7y ago
      yeah but culture doesn't need to wait for natural selection in order to evolve. Incidentally this phrase " cultures are a direct result of the evolutionary process" is a apparently taboo for anthropologists today. I tried to ask such a question on reddit's askanthropology, about which aspects of genetic differences contribute to cultural artifacts, like alcoholism differences, lactose intolerance differences etc. the question was apparently racist and removed