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Environmental determinism is the view that the physical environment, rather than social conditions, determines culture. Those who believe this view say that humans are strictly defined by stimulus- response ( environment- behavior) and cannot deviate. Modern scholars have largely dismissed this view as racist and overly simplistic. Thomas Griffith Taylor was one of the world's greatest proponents of environmental determinism.

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