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ture, however, the contradictions between the natural and the
cultural are the “locomotive” of the history of the child as Vy-
gotsky formulated it. The important task for psychology is to
clarify the dialectics between biology and culture in human
development and how the higher psychological functions are
created by interiorization of culture. There is inter-functionality
between the organic maturation and cultural learning which
characterizes the merging and the development of a human into
a culture. Cultural learning and the acquisition of cultural tools
involve a fusion with the processes of organic maturation. The
two contributions to development—the natural and the cul-
tural—coincide and penetrate one another and essentially form
a single line of sociobiological formation of the man as a cul-
tural human being, developed from a biological being.
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