Re: "Family"

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At 03:32 AM 7/19/96 +0000, Dwight W. Read wrote:

>When we consider humans, the matter becomes much more complex because of a
>cultural overlay which (a) can serve to ensure that paternity is known and
>(b) its ability to elicit behaviors whose origin need not have a biological
>basis, hence need not have their origin via natural selection.
>
>D. Read
>dread@anthro.ucla.edu


If you will pardon an esoteric remark before I go to work:

A cultural overlay does not have the ability to elicit transgenerational
parenting behaviors whose origin need not have a biological basis anymore
than it is possible to write an imaginary number without presupposing the
real number.

Best wishes. rs222@worldnet.att.net

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