[lbo-talk] Eric Hobsbawm on historiography.

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Sun Jan 16 10:48:12 PST 2005


Hi,

Somehow I don't think he was refering to Lysenkoism.


:-)

-Chip

^^^^^

CB: Culture, in the ethnological sense, is LaMarckian-LIKE. ________________________________

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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