Voorzanger B
Acta Biotheor. 1987;36(1):23-34. doi: 10.1007/BF00159229.
Biology cannot accommodate all aspects of culture. Aspects of culture that a biological approach can take into account can be covered by the biological categories of "phenotype" and "environment". There is no need to treat culture as a separate category. Attempts to elaborate biological explanations of "cultural variation" will meet with success only if biologists expand theories of development, and integrate them in evolutionary biology. The alternative--elaborating the idea of so-called "cultural inheritance"--makes little sense from a biological point of view.
生物学无法涵盖文化的所有方面。生物学方法能够考虑到的文化方面，可以用“表型”和“环境”这两个生物学范畴来涵盖。无需将文化视为一个单独的范畴。只有当生物学家扩展发育理论并将其整合到进化生物学中时，试图阐述“文化变异”的生物学解释才会成功。另一种选择——详细阐述所谓“文化遗传”的概念——从生物学角度来看没什么意义。
