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Environmental determinism
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.
Carl Ritter, Ellen Churchill Semple , Jared Diamond, Ellsworth Huntington, and Thomas Griffith Taylor prominent environmental determinists. Friedrich Ratzel was mistakenly viewed as deterministic by many of his students.
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