title: THE PYTHAGOREAN PERSPECTIVE: The Arts and Sociobiology
creator: Allott, Robin
subject: Sociobiology
subject: Evolution
description: Literature, music, mathematics, art, are constituents of culture and each of  them has its separate history. But each of them can also be seen as a  manifestation of a human biological drive, a drive towards exploration,  experimentation, the analysis of human perception. Culture is not something  separate from human evolution but a part of a continuing human evolution, indeed  the main form which human evolution has taken over the last few thousand years.  It is a familiar idea, but perhaps a wrong one, that human evolution, as a  Darwinian process, has ceased and been replaced by something quite new, a more  Lamarckian process involving the inheritance of acquired characteristics, more  specifically of the changing forms of human culture. On this see for example  Dawkins(1986), or Huxley(1926). 
date: 1994
type: Journal (Paginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/3264/1/pythagor.htm
identifier:   Allott, Robin  (1994) THE PYTHAGOREAN PERSPECTIVE: The Arts and Sociobiology.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/3264/