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Who was associated with environmental determinism? What were his major contributions?
I see. Has environmental determinism had any lasting impacts on the modern understanding of geography and culture?
While environmental determinism is no longer widely accepted as a theory, it did lay the foundation for a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between humans and the environment. Many modern geographers and social scientists now study the ways in which physical and social environments interact and shape human behavior and culture.