| 单词 | environmental determinism |
| 释义 | > as lemmasenvironmental determinism environmental determinism n. the theory that environment (frequently as opposed to heredity) is the primary influence on development, esp. that of a person or group; = environmentalism n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > people > science of mankind > [noun] > anthropology > theories in anthroponomy1811 environmental determinism1892 biologism1912 environmentalism1917 diffusionism1918 monoanthropism1950 1892 Chambers's Encycl. (new ed.) X. 428/1 This may be due to the inheritance of characters individually acquired under the stress of surrounding conditions (direct environmental determinism). 1954 Amer. Anthropologist 56 801 Early students, impressed with the ways in which cultures were adjusted to the unique features of their local environments, developed the concept of environmental determinism. 2002 S. Pinker Blank Slate x. 178 The most risible pretexts for bad behavior in recent decades have come not from biological determinism but from environmental determinism. < as lemmas |
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