Re: No distinction between artificial and natural selection - John

Tim Tyler wrote, on 2008/04/08 05:30:
On Apr 7, 4:08 pm, r norman <r_s_norman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ridley says just what I have said. He does not deny that cultures
change with time. He just says that such change is not part of
biological evolution.

Culture is not part of biology?!? Where does it come from,
then? The sun? Rocks and minerals? Culture is part of
biology in the same way that hair and fingernails are -
it is produced by it.

No, culture is not party of biology. If you're going to take the tack that it is, or that architecture is part of biology (any of the other suggestions you have made), then really you should be acknowledging that all science is really just particle physics.

On the other hand, I am surprised that your posts on this idea show an apparent complete lack of understanding of the concept of splitting things up into smaller groups and specializing on just one area. Imagine if one had to be a knowledgeable and competent World War I historian (after all, "culture is biology") in order to get that Ph.D. in microbiology so you could go an work on AIDS/HIV vaccine research at the CDC.

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