While people and societies do, indeed, respond to the opportunities and constraints of their physical environments, ________ takes this to a simplistic, and often racist, extreme by claiming that people's physical,
social and economic development and behavior are fundamentally the result of their physical environments.
A) ecological determinism
B) ethnocentrism
C) egocentrism
D) masculinism
E) environmental determinism
Answer: E
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