Cultural evolution is not a biological process, but as a kind of variation and selection it has the same faults. The fact that a culture prepares a group only for a world that resembles the world in which the culture evolved is the source of our present concern for the future of a habitable earth. (pp. 665-666)
Cumulative Record. Chapter 52: Can Psychology Be a Science of Mind? Quote 10
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