A major contribution of Boas to the field of anthropology was:

a. his emphasis on social evolution.
b. his unilineal approach to the study of different cultures.
c. his research demonstrating that cultural differences are not explained by biological factors.
d. his idea that all human cultures begin as savages.


C

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