Cultural evolution, has been progressing rapidly, and has brought man to many major turning points in civilization, such as "the adoption of upright posture, early man's first use of tools, the development of language, culture as an adaptive strategy, food sharing, food production, social stratification, urbanization, state organization, and now industrialization. ... we consider civilization a disease, then at this point the patient will either recover or die - as a species and as a cultural type." (Bodley p. 2) Bodley writes that man has culturally evolved in a wide variety of ways, howeve...

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