Anthropologists Agree That Cultural Learning Is Uniquely Elaborated Among Humans

question 38

Multiple Choice

Anthropologists agree that cultural learning is uniquely elaborated among humans and that all humans have culture.They also accept a doctrine designated in the 19^th century as the "psychic unity of man." What does this doctrine mean?

• A) Although women and men both share the emotional and intellectual capacities for culture, at the population level there is less variability in these capacities among men than among women.
• B) Although individuals differ in their emotional and intellectual capacities, all human populations have equivalent capacities for culture.
• C) Although an individual's genetic endowment does not affect that person's ability to learn cultural traditions, it does affect his or her capacity to change culture creatively.
• D) Although human populations differ in their emotional and intellectual capacities, all individuals have equivalent capacities for culture.
• E) Both mental abilities and mental disabilities are evenly distributed among individuals of all cultures.

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