lture, is as important as the stories themselves; it is as pertinent in Biology as Ideology to understand the science before you can believe that genes are the cause of success. Understanding what is behind these cultural interpretations is important and makes these two texts quite similar. The reader cannot take for granted what is said in each text, but they must realize that the history of the myth, and the ancestors that created it, are of equal importance to the myth itself. In both cases, man has tried to explain his origin to better understand his purpose and history; in order to value everyday life. With this in mind, the importance and similarity of a hierarchal society parallels the two texts as well by explaining inequality.Both texts explain the significance of a predetermined hierarchy which serves to explain the differences in culture and existence of inequality. Lewontin explains that we differ as humans because we were genetically trained to be unique by our parents. In Biology as Ideology it is noted, “that human nature guarantees the formation of a hierarchal society.” Because of these genetic differences in individuals it is “innate” that society will be a hierarchy. Like this view, “Magic, Science, and Religion” addresses the fact that different cultures were already hierarchal societies under ground and “brought with them all their culture to continue it upon this Earth.” The two concepts share a common idea that what one has as a human, in terms of cultural baggage, has been brought with them; it is internal. It has been transported from the past where the cultural inequalities were already defined. Both ideas agree that there were sects; people were different at the time of their creation. It was said that the differing tribes, “brought with them all their culture,” explaining that their underground creation was where their rank was determined. It was ...
