From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 14:52:13 MDT
<<... began pondering mechanisms which would explain
why humans may evolve more quickly than similar apes.>>
Enhanced polymorphism?
Reading these names (below) it's interesting
(to me) because we can find many different subjects.
Black/white, east/west, north/south, believers/non
believers, etc.
http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/index.html
Of course one might also ask: why the Foundation
laureated, i.e., Grazia Deledda, or Dario Fo, and
did not laureate Tolstoj, Borges, Joyce, Kafka,
Proust ? :-)
"The third proposition of the racism, which is trying to
forbid the half-caste and to come back on pure races,
monomorphes, is fallacious . The advantage for the
human is, on the contrary, his genetic polymorphism,
that kept the characteristic of a wild animal, and that
is astonish: he stayed young . "
- Jacques Ruffié,
"From the biology to the culture", Champs Flammarion,
1983, p.146
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