2003-11-03Z2011-03-11T08:55:23Zhttp://cogprints.org/id/eprint/3264This item is in the repository with the URL: http://cogprints.org/id/eprint/32642003-11-03ZTHE PYTHAGOREAN PERSPECTIVE: The Arts and SociobiologyLiterature, music, mathematics, art, are constituents of culture and each of
them has its separate history. But each of them can also be seen as a
manifestation of a human biological drive, a drive towards exploration,
experimentation, the analysis of human perception. Culture is not something
separate from human evolution but a part of a continuing human evolution, indeed
the main form which human evolution has taken over the last few thousand years.
It is a familiar idea, but perhaps a wrong one, that human evolution, as a
Darwinian process, has ceased and been replaced by something quite new, a more
Lamarckian process involving the inheritance of acquired characteristics, more
specifically of the changing forms of human culture. On this see for example
Dawkins(1986), or Huxley(1926). Robin Allott