ABSTRACT
The most significant paradox in the study of human evolution is that human evolution over the last few million years has been bio-cultural evolution, and it is thus perversely unscientific to try and imagine it as simply a succession of biological processes and effects. Without confronting the cultural aspects of human evolution, one cannot approximate the reality of human origins or human nature. The failure to do so explains why biologically reductive theories of human evolution are generally rejected by anthropology.
