Have the profound implications of the anthropological concept of culture been misunderstood and indeed trivialized, even within anthropology? I believe that in some fashion, polygenics, eugenics, and anti-environmentalism are still with us today, especially in two venues: in the new scientific racism and in claims by modern biologists and anthropologists that such complex human behavioral and cognitive characteristics as manic depression, schizophrenia, alcoholism, homosexuality, intelligence, and warriorism are still determined by single genes (see Gillette 2011, for example).
