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biological determinism

biological determinism

the concept that psychological and behavioral characteristics are entirely the result of constitutional and biological factors. Environmental conditions serve only as occasions for the manifestation of such characteristics. Compare environmental determinism. See determinism; genetic determinism; nature–nurture.

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