Charles,
A good part of your argument with Mark is over my head and I agree with you
on the specificity of human culture eventhough I wouldn't necessarily exclude
other primates or even other very different species from this specificity.
Nevertheless...
>Human culture is grounded in the enormous sociality or
>communality of the human species. This sociality or communality is humans'
>greatest biological adaptive advantage compared with all other species.
The obvious counter-example are the social insects, some of which are
hugely sucessful species.
>So, selfish , individualist behavior undermines the most critical adaptive
>advantage of our species. But it is exactly this area in which other species
>do not have the same thing as humans.
There is a balance of selfishness and social/affective behaviour in all
mammals, AFAIK. You could also argue that human sociality is based on
group-selfishness or the selfishness of a leader. I do not understand where
this behaviour differs from the one of other mammals.
Julien
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