Unilineal evolution, also referred to as classical social evolution, is a 19th-century social theory about the evolution of societies and cultures. It...

in the 19th century to the end of World War I. The 19th-century unilineal evolution theories claimed that societies start out in a primitive state and...

theories of unilineal evolution, where evolutionists were deeply interested in making generalizations. When critique of classical social evolutionism became...

to follow a unilineal pattern whereby all cultures progressively develop over time. The underlying assumption was that Cultural Evolution itself led to...

basis for social structures. However, theories positing the simple, unilineal evolution of societies from traditional to modern industrial are now seen as...

evolutionary process of natural selection. From the evolutionary perspective, evolution resulted in variations of the human mind. Natural selection refined these...

Mortillet believed his classifications were universal stages, with a unilineal evolution, later thinking regards each culture as a more localised conglomerate...

later interpreted as social Darwinism. These nineteenth-century unilineal evolution theories claimed that societies start out in a primitive state and...

evolution Evolutionary Psychology – free access online scientific journal Evolution and Human Behavior – journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society...

racial classification scheme. In the 19th century, unilineal evolution, or classical social evolution, was a conflation of competing sociologic and anthropologic...

"evolution" to anthropology though they tended toward the older pre-Spencerian definition helping to form the concept of unilineal (social) evolution used...

temperament unconscious — underclass — underdevelopment — unemployment — unilineal evolution — unintended consequences — unions — universal health care — upper...

the anthropologist Donald Symons as the first author to propose, in The Evolution of Human Sexuality (1979), that rape is "a by-product of adaptations designed...

earth goddess. This was based upon the nineteenth-century ideas of unilineal evolution of Johann Jakob Bachofen. According to the academic view, however...

ladder-like ordering was taken to be a strict, linear progression, or unilineal evolution. Some economic determinism applied, in the sense that the baseline...

groups had passed through the same stages of cultural evolution (See also classical social evolutionism). Morgan, in particular, acknowledged that certain...

Since the psychohistorians' model is analogous to the now discarded unilineal evolution theory, anthropologists have been critical of the negative value...

Natural Selections: Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars and Other Realities of Evolution is based on articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Madame Bovary's...

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projections of what white Europeans had been (in a mere racist outline of unilineal evolution), but also of what they should be in the future, on a higher level...

investment, relative autarky. Early theories positing the simple, unilineal evolution of societies from traditional to industrial model are now seen as...

organised by Colonel Le Clerc, attempted to demonstrate theories of unilineal evolution, putting the European man at the apex of human history. Parts of...

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evolutionary psychologists and evolutionary psychiatrists to use the theory of evolution to further understand mood disorders. Depression is generally thought...

of evolution, but his explanations failed to convince academics because they were based on a teleological (goal-oriented) understanding of evolution. For...

patterns that facilitated survival or reproductive outcomes during human evolution (Cosmides & Tooby, 1994; Geary, 2005; Gelman, 1990; Pinker, 1997; Shepard...

proposed the first statistical solutions. By the early 20th century unilineal evolutionism was abandoned and along with it the drawing of direct inferences...

theorists. Franz Boas was one of the first anthropologists to question unilineal evolution, the belief that all societies follow the same, unavoidable path...

repeat sequentially in a fixed pattern approximately every 80 years. Unilineal evolution – Before Darwin's work On the Origin of Species, some models incorporated...

argued that the Tallensi and the Nuer were primarily organized around unilineal descent groups. Such groups are characterized by common purposes, such...