[lbo-talk] DO KINDER PEOPLE HAVE AN EVOLUTIONARY ADVANTAGE?

[c b]

Alan Rudy
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Add this to the ridiculous NYT article about culture influencing
evolution from the other day, alongside the extension of the structure
of anti-evolution legislative efforts into the anti-climate change
arena, and we have more and more evidence of how absolutely little
proponents and opponents of evolution, climate change and science in
general understand evolution, climate change and science in general.
The reductionist pursuit of the straightforward, the cut and dried,
and the simple drives me up a tree. Yours, feeling increasingly like
an angry ape (no tail, like Curious George, so I'm NOT a monkey), A

^^^^^^
CB: I didn't see the NYT article, but it's pretty fundamental
materialist anthro that culture , in the sense of custom, tradition,
"structure",  was an extrasomatic/non-bodily human species
characteristic that was an adaptive advantage at the orgins and
survival of our species.

However, monkeys climb trees and apes don't. Well, maybe gibbons climb trees.

What's the latest extension of the anti-evolution legislative ?