Abstract

Focuses on the ambiguous status of evolutionary explanations in anthropology. Difference between evolutionism in the generic sense and Darwinism; Assumptions concerning the age of the earth that anthropologists challenge; Darwinian explanations for social and cultural changes; Disagreements among scientists on rate of evolution; Problems in assessing the plausibility of evolutionary arguments.

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