I dont make a seprate distinction between the two (culture and biology) since the one drives the other by creating it via evolution.
I dont believe we as a species are doing anything other than just what mother nature intended for us to do when it programed us to be and act just the way we are. We dont need to go the way of the dinosaurs if we can overcome the limitations of our condition and evolve into a species capable of self directed evolution. (Which means being capable of planning and organizing our cultural direction as well and not looking away from the coming problems but instead cooporating to over come them. Living in a kind of symbiosos with our enviroment and going all natural is something we havent done since before we left the trees and altough it has some merits if one wishes to move backwards and give up everything that put us here, it will still statistically end with us eaither destroyed by another more expansive species or portion of our own...as evolution has proved or in stagnation and demise from within as we use up all our rescources in a paticular area and eaither die out or move on.
We shouldnt restrict ourselves to only living on the planet we were born upon. Evolution I am sure doesnt end at the endge of our atmosphere.
If you look at the development of the human mind you will find it to be quite liniear...all extinct versions of it have been in some way surpassed by newer better smarter more creative models. Sure evolution works every angle it can, but lets face it...it only keeps the proven susccessful ones...when bigger and badder wasnt the answer as with the dinosuars, smarter seems to be the only logical remaining choice. Hence we are here and able to discuss this at all.
I dont care what the "buzz" words are or are not.
There are just as many scientists who see culture as simpley another extension of biology. The real change there of wont come until a human evolves who can modify the one to benifit the other and see's it work.
I never said we knew everything, or that we dont find more things need to be explored further.
Only that the more we have learned the more things prove to be less about wishful thinking and more about actual biology and science.






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