To the charge that their discipline ignores the role of cultural practices in shaping human behaviour and places too much emphasis on evolutionary factors in shaping cultural practices, sociobiologists argue that
A) understanding natural selection helps explain the evolution of cultural practices and human behaviour.
B) cultural evolution has not been a significant factor in shaping human behaviour.
C) sociobiological theory does not apply to human beings.
D) animal behaviour has not been affected by cultural evolution and therefore it is unlikely that human behaviour has been affected by it.
E) cultural practices are too variable to be studied as a function of evolution.
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