Which statement about culture change is false?

a. Cultures are always changing.
b. Cultures change through the processes of diffusion and innovation.
c. Cultures change more through invention than through diffusion.
d. Anthropologists do not agree on the single most important cause of culture change.
e. Culture change is important to cultural survival.


ANS: C

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