The examples of the Inuit and Aboriginal Australians are offered in the passage to show:

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The examples of the Inuit and Aboriginal Australians are offered in the passage to show:

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A.
how environmental factors lead to comparatively divergent paths in livelihoods and development.
B.
human resourcefulness across cultures in adapting to their surroundings.
C.
how physical circumstances can dictate human behaviour and cultures.
D.

that despite geographical isolation, traditional societies were self-sufficient and adaptive.

Option C is the correct answer.

Explanatory Answer

The passage gives the example of the Inuit peoples to illustrate the role of geographic factors and the example of Aboriginal Australians to illustrate the role of biogeographic factors on human phenomena and characteristics. That is, these examples are offered in the passage to show how physical circumstances can dictate human behavior and cultures. So, option C is the right choice.

Options B and D are easily ruled out. While option A also talks about 'environmental factors', this option is not the right choice as the examples are not given to illustrate how environmental factors influence livelihoods and development as such but how they influence, more generally, human characteristics and cultures.