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Jackpine Radical

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4. You're conflating physical and social "evolution."

Reply to greiner3 (Original post)

Fri Dec 23, 2011, 11:27 AM

Dec 2011

They are very different processes.

When Gould was talking about rapid species change, he was using the term "rapid" in a geological context. A few million years, for example.

Since social change is not ery much conditioned on physical change, and since it consists of "reprogramming the organism" (AKA learning), it can move rapidly. A single individual can adapt to many changes within one lifetime.

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I think Matt is wrong; [View all] greiner3 Dec 2011 OP

That is hard to read. Can it not be formatted better? tabatha Dec 2011 #1

Unrec based on first sentence in your post. DURHAM D Dec 2011 #2

I have no idea what this is all about but any posting that Javaman Dec 2011 #3

You're conflating physical and social "evolution." Jackpine Radical Dec 2011 #4

It hurts my eyes to even try to read that quinnox Dec 2011 #5