The Unique Operations Of The (human) Brain Are The Result Of Natural Selection Operating Through The Filter Of Culture.

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The unique operations of the (human) brain are the result of natural selection
operating through the filter of culture. They have suspended us between the
two antipodal ideals of nature and machine, forest and city, the natural and
the artifactual, relentlessly seeking, in the words of geographer Yi-Fu Tuan,
an equilibrium not of this world.
-- Edward O. Wilson, "Biophilia"

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