> Charles Brown wrote:
>> Kinship is the organization of relationships between living people
>> based
>>on their relationships to dead ancestors...
>>...Kinship is central to culture. Chimps don't have kinship.
>
> So, kinship being defined as relationship among *people*, chimps
> being defined as something other than *people*, and culture having
> *kinship* as its central feature, it follows with uroboric
> circularity that chimps have no *culture*.
>
> Shane Mage
>
> ^^^^^^^
> CB; No that is not what I mean. Just substitute " living individual
> members
> of the species", "dead members of the species" for "people". Kinship is
> the
> organization of relationships betweeen living members of the species based
> on their relationships to dead generations of the species. If individual
> chimps significantl related to each other in this way , they would have
> culture or original culture.
>
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