Franz Boas:
A) had an early influence on Darwin's theory of natural selection.
B) considered environment and biology insignificant in the study of human cultures.
C) never conducted his own fieldwork, curiously.
D) united the study of culture, language, and biology within American anthropology.

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Franz Boas is widely respected for his efforts to unite cultural anthropology, linguistics, and biological anthropology. He believed that it was necessary to examine all aspects of a culture and its environment in order to fully understand it, and that no one discipline could succeed in exploring all aspects of human culture. Boas himself conducted extensive fieldwork among the Inuit and Kwakiutl peoples of North America, among others.