We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior, and the enormous role of the cultural process of the transmission of tradition.


Patterns of Culture (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1973) - ISBN: 9780547523927

Ruth Benedict Quotes

We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted...

We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted...

We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted...

We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted...