From: Jim Devine <[email protected]>
right. ^^^ CB: I send an "agree" to your response to this question from David, too. I copied your response and put it on my facebook page ^^^^ To a large extent, the evolution of culture (which sometimes involves revolution) ^^^ CB: Definitely, following a dialectical conception we find "leaps" in the history of culture, punctuated equilibrium. ^^^^^^^ has replaced the evolution of the gene pool to allow humanity to adapt to its environment -- and to adapt its environment to house it. ^^^^^ CB: Yes, culture/custom gives humans a LaMarckian-like adaptive mechanism. Culture allows or _is_ inheritance of acquired characteristics; it is through an extra-somatic or non-genetic process, of course. Culture makes reinvention of the wheel unnecessary. Once it's invented , it can be passed on through tradition and custom. "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." ~ John Steinbeck -- Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
