Tim_Tyler comments on Dunbar's Function - Less Wrong
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Our minds are made by (essentially) stone-age genes, but they import up-to-date memes - and are a product of influences from both sources.
So: our minds are actually pretty radically different from stone-age minds - because they have downloaded and are running a very different set of brain-software routines. This influence of memes explains why modern society is so different from the societies present in the stone age.