We do not migrate from biology to culture like settlers moving into a land of opportunity, nor do we shuttle backwards and forwards between the two provinces. We live in both at the same time. This is a complicated state of affairs. The options are to try to understand it better, to maintain the fiction of simplicity, or to declare that the situation is too complicated to analyse.
Marek Kohn, As We Know It: Coming To Terms With An Evolved Mind (1999)
Monday, July 21, 2008
Trouvailles
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