Somehow I don't think he was refering to Lysenkoism.
:-)
-Chip
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From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of Charles Brown Sent: Sun 1/16/2005 11:46 AM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: [lbo-talk] Eric Hobsbawm on historiography.....
Eric Hobsbawm
The changes in human life in past 10,000 years, let alone the past 10 generations, are too great to be explained by a wholly Darwinian mechanism of evolution via genes. They amount to the accelerating inheritance of acquired characteristics by cultural and not genetic mechanisms.
^^^^^^^ CB: Comrade Hobsbawm is spot on here.
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