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RIght, but the main thing that separates humans are their culture

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All of these can be true on different levels of analysis. In animal life terms, primacy of biology self-evident. We know of no shark cities.

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Yet, you have just separated out sapiens as a species; argument from biology. But biology ≠ our concepts of it. A lot we call biology isn't.

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As you say, our cultural notions shape what we consider to be biological in itself, even as species characteristics stay relatively fixed.

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Sure, but what made us Sapiens was our pre-Sapien culture. Read Henrich "The Secret of Our Success"

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That's an unprovable assertion, I think, but an interesting idea. Will have a look.

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