NoGodsEver wrote:
I haven't read it (yet)
What the hell's the matter with you?
but doesn't The Extended Phenotype cover some of this ground? That biology influences the environment, which would also include culture? I mean, Dawkins wrote it, so it's obviously wrong, but there might be something there.
He talks briefly about memes, but only among animals. He devotes an entire chapter in The Selfish Gene to memes as replicators in human culture. The examples of extended phenotypes Dawkins gives included things animals build, like wasp nests, and physiological & behavioral changes in hosts effected by parasites.
Social behavior in animals is a phenotype, but some behaviors may be innate, while others are learned. Numerous examples exist of animals (apes and birds most notable) learning behaviors and skills by observing others. As brains grow, the capacity for heuristic acquisition of behavior increases. Some things you need to do automatically as soon as you hit the ground, however.
Human culture itself could be considered a phenotype. How much of our behavior is innate & evolved, vs, how much is learned, is the big debate. Of course, culture is not arbitrary and popped out of nothing -- it derives from our ancestors' evolved social behavior.
Sex differences in mating strategies are ubiquitous in Animalia; the genetic basis for that is well understood, and applies to all animals, including us. Social sciences like Anthropology act as if Darwin had never been born. PoMo, which just pulled the 'sex is nothing but a social construct' idea out of its ass, must reject evolutionary biology as heretical to its worldview.
Peezus is slave to PoMo SJW dogma, but still trying to maintain the facade of a legit scientist. Thus one day he says,
"Nor do any claim that there aren’t significant [evolved] behavioral differences" between men and women; then the next day say,
"plasticity is all". One day it's:
" NO ONE denies the physical differences between men and women"; the next,
"Not a black&white division even in reproductive biology."
No wonder the poor bastard's having a psychotic break with reality.