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Originally Posted by SMadsen
I'm not in agreement with your use of concepts here. Neither evolution nor genetic mutation is a mean of transfer. They are both a measure (and possible cause) of change between transfers, not a source of transfer.
The source of transfer between humans, i.e. human inheritance, is either genes or culture (or divine intervention for those inclined to hold to such a notion). Not evolution and not mutation.
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I agree that inheritance is the vehicle of the transfer in genetics, but either God-derived, evolution or mutation MUST be the source of what is transfered.
And I draw a strong distinction between a genetic inheritence and a cultural one. One has NO CHOICE in one's genetic inheritence, one HAS CHOICE in one's cultural inheritence. Ergo, they are fundamentally different processes. One does not inherit American culture the same way one inherits blue eyes.