ANT100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Blackboard, Homo Sapiens, Potlatch
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We belong to a certain group and carry out a common language and set of ideas and morals according to our culture. Every creature tries to adapt and preserve itself, to hostile environment, competition and for humans having language and culture is very adaptative. What we learn from each other vs. what was programmed by our genes. Being able to have culture is programmed by our genes the program enables culture specific ways of acting, living and thinking: forming procreative relationships, recognizing hierarchy. Culture is how you deal with evidence. How you speak, and how u use the language. Cultures are significantly different, but not infinitely different. Human cultures have more in common than not. 100 years ago incest was very interesting. Procreation sex is considered to be an abomination in all cultures. A distinctively human resource and central element of culture, used for; Animals don"t have a linguistic structure and they cant talk therefore, they are different than humans.
