Which of these people was not a leading anthropologist of the twentieth century?
a. chevalier de lamarck
b. alfred reginald radcliffe-brown
c. bronislaw malinowski
d. franz boas

The correct answer is A.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744 – 1829) also known as, Chevalier de Lamarck, was a French naturlist and biologist. When the French National Assembly created the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in 1793, Lamarck started to work there as a professor of zoology.

He proposed theories that connected the process of biological evolution with natural laws, such as the well-known theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics, also denominated soft inheritance.

answer; exploratory;

answer; disconfirm the catharsis theory;