Thread: How important is race in connection to culture?
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Originally Posted by Sergius View Post
What else enters into it, then?
A particular environment encourages certain genes, discourages other ones over a sustained period of time. Genes and environment interact in a complex manner (i.e., I don't know exactly how ) to produce a culture and civilisation. As has already been pointed out, there is an element -- large element? -- of contingency in the makeup of a culture and what has happened historically (e.g., discovery of the Americas). "Race" is still ill-defined (maybe always will be, because definition in terms of certain clusters of genes is arbitrary).
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