The Difference Between Modern Cultural Evolutionary Paradigms and 19th Century

question 33

Multiple Choice

The difference between modern cultural evolutionary paradigms and 19th century unilineal evolutionism is:

• A) modern evolutionism highlights the role of ecological, demographic, and/or technological factors in conditioning cultural evolution.
• B) modern evolutionism does not contain the racist overtones inherent in 19th century unilineal evolutionary schemes.
• C) modern evolutionists agree that cultural behavior is not controlled by biology, and that the human past is much more complex than 19th century evolutionists imagined it.
• D) All of the answers are correct.

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