ABSTRACT

The problems are quite new ones, engendered by the latest findings of biological, cognitive and systems sciences; and even as they repropound the problem of the relation between the biological and the cultural evolution of man, so they shift this problem to a different qualitative plane. As regards both dimensions of the relationship, it can be seen that there is plenty of scope for presupposing a solution of continuity from the biological level to the cultural level. This intrinsic, determining character of the subject with respect to the findings of scientific observation was pointed out by Wolfgang Pauli, who went so far as to indicate a genuinely psychological-subjective correspondence in scientific explanation. In actual fact, the acquisitions, the elaborations, the achievements at biological level interact and link up with cultural findings at every point and passage of human evolution. Cultural evolution is also, simultaneously, biological; as biological evolution is also, simultaneously cultural.