Margaret Mead, in her studies of three South Seas cultures, noted that the three cultures were quite different from each other regarding the concept of what it meant to be a man or a woman. These observations lend support to the idea that
A) Gender behavior is almost completely determined by nature
B) Gender differences are deeply biological
C) Gender differences are strongly influenced by nurture
D) Gender differences are random
Answer: C
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