>                                               Does this also apply to the   
   evolution of civilizations?   
   >   
   >   From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   >- Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a   
   changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.   
   >   
   >George Gaylord Simpson   
      
   Yes, but the term civilazation is not very useful.   
      
   What that term means is one of the several complex state level cultures   
   that arose some 5k and thereafter years or so ago.   
      
   The term as used implies a ethnocentric qualitative not a analitical   
   culture measure.   
      
   We got civilization and you ain't got it as one complex   
   culture might taunt another of equal complexity..   
      
   It is said to spread like a diseasse,ie we brought you civilazation.   
      
   Complex cultures developed big flashy things, buildings and cities etc.,   
   and often a literacy writing method as typical features.   
      
   Ethnocentric derived qualitative so called marks of civilization  are of   
   little use otherwise.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)