Naturalisation of Humans is related to which of the following ?

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 3

The correct answer is Option (3) → Environmental Determinism

A naturalised human is the early human who had very little technology. Such people obeyed nature, feared its fury and worshipped it.

Option (1) Neo-determinism — Incorrect. This is Griffith Taylor’s middle path, also called stop and go determinism. People can develop, but only within the limits nature allows.

Option (2) Possibilism — Incorrect. Here people use the opportunities nature gives, and slowly nature gets humanised. This is the stage of humanisation of nature, the opposite idea.

Option (3) Environmental Determinism — Correct. In the early stages, nature controlled human life and humans adapted to its dictates. The naturalised human belongs to this stage of environmental determinism.

Option (4) Post-Modernism — Incorrect. This approach of the 1990s questioned grand generalisations and stressed each local context.

Note: A similar question was also asked in CUET (UG) 2023 on 02-07-2023 (Slot 3).

NCERT (2026-27): “Naturalisation of Humans and Humanisation of Nature … In the early stages of their interaction with their natural environment humans were greatly influenced by it. They adapted to the dictates of Nature. This is so because the level of technology was very low and the stage of human social development was also primitive. This type of interaction between primitive human society and strong forces of nature was termed as environmental determinism. At that stage of very low technological development we can imagine the presence of a naturalised human, who listened to Nature, was afraid of its fury and worshipped it.”