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But the structures that give rise to cultures are a direct result of the evolutionary process.



yeah but culture doesn't need to wait for natural selection in order to evolve.

Incidentally this phrase " cultures are a direct result of the evolutionary process" is a apparently taboo for anthropologists today. I tried to ask such a question on reddit's askanthropology, about which aspects of genetic differences contribute to cultural artifacts, like alcoholism differences, lactose intolerance differences etc. the question was apparently racist and removed




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