Re: Is evolution accelerating?

John Harshman wrote:

> dkomo wrote:
>

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>> Remember to use only steps
>>>1-6, since the rest are not evolution at all.
>>
>>Apparently, that's arguable, as the dialog between Wilkins and r norman
>>illustrates.
>
>
> Anything is arguable. I don't think Wilkins' arguments are working.
>

Let me repeat something I wrote in another post. For animals with
"culture", which are sets of learned group behaviors, we make no claims
that such culture is separate and apart from their biological evolution.
We view such culture as an integral part of their biological
adaptation to their environment, which environment includes members of
their own species.

Then we come to humans and all of a sudden you start flapping about how
technological evolution must be treated separately from human biological
evolution. What is different here to warrant such a cleavage? Neither
you nor r norman has supplied an answer to this question: what is sui
generis about human cultural evolution?


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