... 1860-1890's. This theory was influenced by natural science using Darwin's theory as a basis to explain how new forms of life have developed and adapted and this applied to culture, because the natural and human worlds were governed by the same laws of evolution. This view led to the development of the notion that new types of society develop out of others. Evolutionist anthropologists used this idea to explain how because of this succession a psychic unity existed with humans everywhere sharing the same biologically grounded intellectual skills and characteristics. Another explanation used, was the existence of 'stages of progress'. The stages went from one extreme to another with the 'primitive' society at one end and the 'modern' at the other. Stocking (1968) reviewed the work of Tylor who was an evolutionist anthropologist during the 1860's. Stocking cited that such anthropologists treated human differences as associates of evolutionary stages and ...

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