Boas did not deny that physical features such as height or cranial size were inherited; he did, however, argue that the environment has an influence on these features, which is expressed through change over time.
鲍亚士并不否認体质特征是遺傳的，例如身高或头骨大小；然而，他確實主张环境对这些特征具有影響力，這是随时间变化而被顯现出来。