Why are biology and its central theory, evolution, vital for meeting the challenge of ourselves as culture...?

Question

Why are biology and its central theory, evolution, vital for meeting the challenge of knowing ourselves as culture bearing organisms?

Answer 1

It is important for us to understand ourselves as being social animals.  We evolved to be social, however, our society has grown crowded and complicated compared to other social animals.  Because our technologies and knowledge have greatly expanded, we've been able to manipulate our environment to the extent that biology and natural selection does not impact our species as it does other organisms.  However, our basic instincts still tend to motivate our behavior such as  hierarchy (social status, money and power), sexual behavior (who we choose as mates and why), and social ties (even in an urban setting, we still maintain our social groups of family and friends for comfort, help, protection, love, and other biological emotions).  The important part of knowing our motives and adhering to the rules of culture that may or may not be in conflict with our biological motivations is important in understanding how we behave and why.

Answer 2

Biology is defined as the study of life and living systems.  Evolution is a small part of biology.  Your basic premise in therefore flawed.

What is a culture bearing organism?   You mean ants?  

Get real.  I have a feeling you know little of biology and even less of evolution.

Answer 3

Man for a long time mired in the soup of the same confusing concepts and incognitive notions about his reality around him

and then in the last several hundred years has wiped out almost all evidence of anything such as horse travel and no telephones.  The theory of evolution only filled a hole in our concepts that weaved our understanding of reality.  It works.  It is simple and easy to understand.  We have evolved into self-conscious beings even if God is just around the corner laughing at us all.  Sure, we got it sort of but not all the way.

Answer 4

It is important to undertand the real nature of the world.  I am not suggesting that scientists have figured everything out but certainly evolution is a theory that has been backed with so many facts that there is little doubt.  The theory indicates interesting consequences for animals that are not fit.  Perhaps similar consequences will befall those societies that are also not fit.

Answer 5

To put it simply... If one does not believe in evolution, one has not yet evolved.

Answer 6

No idea.

Answer 7

i suppose, evolution is like a story whose "history" of humble beginnings offers a hope of a sophisitacted future. that cultural infancy of barbarism has/will progress to something much more valuable than the sum of its parts.

or i could be completely full of bovine excrement =P

Answer 8

It's not. It's only vital to those who study such things; and only then is it vital just so some people can hear themselves talk. Stop studying that and get a real skill. You'll appreciate it when you are older and have money in your pocket.