On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:44 AM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ?
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