Regarding human capacity for culture, anthropologists agree that

A. 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.
B. although individuals differ in their emotional and intellectual capacities, all human populations have equivalent capacities for culture.
C. because human populations differ in their emotional and intellectual capacities, the ability to learn culture differs among societies.
D. both mental abilities and mental disabilities are evenly distributed among individuals of all cultures.
E. 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.


Answer: B

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