Re: is our brain part of evolution?
Peter Stephen Thomas III (pst@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu)
13 Oct 1996 21:38:27 GMT
ITAY (itay@netvision.net.il) wrote:
: Our brain as it is today could not (at least that iswhat i think)
: could not become as comlex as it is just of evolution, why?
: if we watch the western culther, but mostly african or indian, we
: can well see that the brain was used in last 10000-2000 years only
: for simple tasks, i mean not by all people but by most of them,
: so how come that the evuolution made a brain as big as that to become
: so big, if only 10%-30% were used ?
: so either our brain is a freak of nature, or a made by god? or maby we
: werent part of the evolution and have been put here by other?
: is that a stupid theroy? i realy want to know...
:
: itay f (TEL AVIV /ISRAEL)
Try reading Geertz's "Interpretations of Culture" especially chapters 2 and
3 and see if that answers your question.
Peter Thomas
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