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To: D. Long who wrote (9890)	5/26/1999 1:47:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Adapting to an environment and cultural change are two different things. Examples of cultural change abound in literate cultures, preliterate cultures tend to be static, and their oral history tends towards archetypes. Also, we have no idea if the existing pre- literates bear much resemblance to early man, except in the obvious sense of having a primitive technology, and we have no idea how they might have changed to more sophisticated peoples... Maybe we will learn something about adaptation, although it seems that much of adaptation is either exigent (you must follow the herds, or you must sow in season)or ceremonial, elaborating ways of imputing human values to the world and to biological traits we share with the animals. In fact, it may be that the need to differentiate ourselves from the animals is much greater in primitive conditions, since pre- literates are more prone to develop rituals surrounding eating and procreation. After that it is just detail... I approve of ethnographic studies of "non- exotic" cultures, as a supplement to the biases of sociology...