Human Nature, Genome and Culture

<ns3:p>The human nature (understood as the whole of genetically determined behavioral programmes specific to man) and the human culture (or human civilization) defined as the whole of the information which can be transmitted to successive generations without the involvement of genetic transmission both present numerous similarities. They are both the stock of information. They evolved with time , although the evolution of the human genome lasted much longer than the development of human culture (million years in the case of the genome and thousands years in the case of culture). Both the human nature and culture are conservative, but the former is much more conservative than the latter. The velocity of cultural and civilizational changes become greater and greater with time, especially from the beginning of 21st century. Although the negation of some elements of culture and its enrichement with novel elements by successive generations is a stable component of the human history, this process seems too fast in our times. The extreme high difference between the velocity of civilizational changes and changes induced by biological evolution of man creates the serious tensions, which should be overcome by the contemporaneous and future generations. Although the culture must evolve, it cannot become totally rejected or destroyed and replaced by totally novel rules. All the ideas of the „cultural revolution” are not realistic and dangerous.</ns3:p>