Environmental Determinism And Environmental Probab

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Environmental Determinism And Environmental Probabilism, Is The Environment Really Influencing Human society? The fundamental of environmental determinism based on to emphasized the role of physical geography, particularly about climate, and how this physical environment in structuring human activities. There are two determinisms that I am going to discuss. The first one is called “Biological determinism”, this determinism is emphasized on the claims that behaviors is the result of internal factors, which means we human have no control about it. For example, these include genetic make-up; biological needs and evolutionary pressures. The video we watched in the class “Journey of Man”, it mention how human survive in different claims and environments. Genetic difference can make human adapt to difference claims. People who in the tropic zone has special genetics to protect themselves to adapt to the higher ultraviolet rays, that is the reason why their skin color is darker than people who live in the frigid zone. The following is the theory from a medieval writer Al-Jahiz, explained how the environment can determine the physical characteristic. “…is so unusual that its gazelles and ostriches, its insects and flies, its foxes, sheep and asses, its horses and its birds are all black. Blackness and whiteness are in fact caused by the properties of the region, as well as by the God-given nature of water and soil and by the proximity or remoteness of the sun and the intensity or mildness of its heat." . The second determinism is called “environmental determinism”, this is different from the first determinism, and this is the claims that behavior is the result of external force. For instance, high temperature causes rioting, laziness and relaxed attitudes. The following is the evidence of environmental determinism. “The enervating monotonous climates of much of the
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