Portable Wisdom

Author: Edwin G. Pulleyblank

Brief Info: Canadian sinologist and professor at the University of British Columbia

Years Lived: 1922-2013

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Cultural, as opposed to biological, evolution

Our capacity, through language, to manipulate the mental world and so deal imaginatively with the world of experience has been a major factor, perhaps the major factor, in giving humans the overwhelming advantage over other species in terms of cultural, as opposed to biological, evolution.

From the book Studies in Language Origins

— 1989

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