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cultures are created and die at a rate much higher than evolutionary timescales
by buboard 7y ago
cultures are created and die at a rate much higher than evolutionary timescales
- vermilingua 7y agoBut the structures that give rise to cultures are a direct result of the evolutionary process.
- buboard 7y agoyeah 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