This chapter's survey of the major theoretical perspectives that have characterized anthropology highlights all of the following EXCEPT
A. the discipline's profound commitment to understanding human diversity.
B. a continuous concern with scientific fundamentals and whether or not anthropology's research subject is best studied scientifically.
C. a continuous concern with how to define and study culture.
D. attention to whether or not anthropological data ought to be comparative across time and space.
E. the theoretical and methodological shift from complexity to models that simplify human diversity.
Answer: E
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