"The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will……" — John Tooby

"The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men as husbands, or of parent cloistering their sons but not their daughters to protect their sons' virtue, or when cultural distributions for preferences concerning physical attractiveness, earning power, relative age and so on show as many cultures with bias in one direction as in the other."

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2 Quotes by John Tooby

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Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

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