Re: Gender importance (was Future Relationships)

Eric Ruud (ejruud@ucdavis.edu)
Wed, 21 Apr 1999 18:27:28 -0700

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From: Jason Spencer <spencer@ualberta.ca> To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com> Date: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: Gender importance (was Future Relationships)

>Culture is a New Trick whose attributes have emerged from these gender
>differences that already existed. (Over evolutionary time, culture may not
>turn out to be beneficial for our species at all as we can see from the
>various disaster scenarios discussed on the list - it's a gamble, just like
>every evolutionary innovation.)
>
>Jason Spencer

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that either your definition of culture is different than most, or you're claiming that gender is biologically determined.

-Eric