Re: More Evolutionary Thoughts

jennifer rebecca boudreaux (jbones@UNM.EDU)
Fri, 15 Sep 1995 11:12:35 -0600

On Tue, 12 Sep 1995, Ania Lian wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Sep 1995, Richard Spear wrote:
>
> > the Yanomamo culture is a "failure" and that American culture is a
> > "success".
> The 200 years of American culture so far disappears between the milions
> years of human(oid) existence. And the way we go looks like it that it
> may have a short life span after all.
> ania
>
How can one say that one culture is a "failure" and another is a
"success". Furthurmore, I do not believe that the Yanomamo culture can
be compared to American culture.