>>> Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/16/00 03:25PM >>>
I don't think these issues can be quantified in this way (though maybe I've
been influence by Stephen J. Gould too much).
Biology sets limits (that can be modified by technology), whereas culture
seems to determine how we live within those limits (and when and how we
decide to use technology to modify the biological limits). See my long
missive in this thread.
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CB: Marshall Sahlins has the same formulation on limits. I agree.
However, biology sets some tendencies or directions, as well as limits. Culture and
experience can sometimes reverse those tendencies or directions, but sometimes culture
goes parallel with the biological tendencies or directions.
CB
