L’homme fruit de l’évolution:
jusqu’où?
Human bodies are products of natural selection but human minds
and human behaviour are products of culture, and human culture
does not reflect human nature, but the reverse.
Yet to me, the most interesting things about human beings are the
things that they share, not the things that differ between cultures:
things like grammatical language, hierarchy, romantic love, sexual
jealousy, long-term bonds between the genders (‘marriage’).
These are trainable instincts peculiar to our species and are just as
surely the products of evolution as eyes and thumbs are.
M. Ridley. Sex and the evolution of human nature. 1993