Biology and People
Apr. 7th, 2012 08:23 amUsing only biological drives to understand human nature is like using only the fact that computers ultimately run on binary to understand Microsoft Office.
Yes, that fact is true, and yet somehow it does not actually tell you "use Ctrl-C to copy".
Yes, that fact is true, and yet somehow it does not actually tell you "use Ctrl-C to copy".
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Date: 2012-04-10 03:10 pm (UTC)I did want to use Ctrl-C specifically, because under the old VAX mainframe OS, and under DOS, IIRC, Ctrl-C was the the "cancel" command. So I think it illustrates the way evolution can use the same tool to solve very different problems -- or come up with very different solutions to the same problem. Monogamy is one sensible solution to the biological drive to reproduce, for example, but it's far from a necessary or only solution.