nism explains that genes cause social behavior in order to explain and allow them to accept inequality. Both describe and form truths that explain difficult cultural problems that are best described as “an active force” by which they live. Both ideologies are similar in that they believe in an “innate” culture, but they argue from completely different premises to arrive at the same ends; both are charters for how they view the present World to be perfect. The Trobrianders have shown their environment has produced this difference while genetic determinism argues genes have made their environment. In one sense this makes these cultures very much alike. At the same time, it contrasts these cultures to have very different purposes and ideologies respectively. ...
