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Also Known As sociocultural evolution

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Swiss-born French philosopher
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
British philosopher
H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells
British author
Edward Burnett Tylor
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor
British anthropologist
Lewis Henry Morgan
Lewis Henry Morgan
American anthropologist
Sir James George Frazer
British anthropologist
Jacob Bronowski
British mathematician
Robert Redfield
American anthropologist
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian philosopher and literary critic
Leslie A. White
American anthropologist
William Fielding Ogburn
American sociologist
Elman Rogers Service
American anthropologist
Leo Frobenius
Leo Frobenius
German ethnologist
Gustav Friedrich Klemm
German anthropologist