Charles Darwin's Observations on How Individuals Adapt to an Environment

question 100

Multiple Choice

Charles Darwin's observations on how individuals adapt to an environment through natural selection had the strongest influence on which of the following schools of thought?

• A) structuralism
• B) Gestalt theory
• C) functionalism
• D) psychoanalytic theory

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Definitions:

Economies of Scale

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Economies of Scale

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