Meggers, BJ (English spelling) MeggersBJ

Japanese: Meggers,B.J.(英語表記)MeggersBJ
Meggers, BJ (English spelling) MeggersBJ

...Those who study the development of culture from ape-humans to modern humans and those who study culture ecologically take this view, seeing culture as a behavioral pattern that is ecologically useful and socially transmitted, and cultural change as a process of adaptation. BJ Meggers states that "Man is an animal, and therefore, like all other animals, must maintain an adaptive relationship with the surrounding environment in order to survive. Humans achieve this adaptation primarily through culture, but the direction of this process is regulated by the laws of natural selection that govern the adaptation of living organisms" (Amazonia).

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Japanese:

…主として猿人類から新人類にいたる文化の発展を研究する立場に立つ人々と,文化を生態学的に研究する立場に立つ人々がこの見方をとり,文化を,生態学的に有用で,社会的に伝達される行動様式としてみ,文化の変化を適応の過程と見る。メガーズB.J.Meggersは,〈人間は一個の動物であり,したがって他のすべての動物と同様,その生存のためには,周囲の環境との適応関係を維持していかなければならない。人間は主として文化を媒介としてこの適応をとげてゆくものであるが,そのプロセスの方向は,生物の適応を支配する自然選択の法則によって規制される〉と述べている(《アマゾニア》)。…

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