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noun
A school of anthropology, developed in the mid-20th century, concerned with long-term, evolutionary social change and with the regular patterns of development that may be seen in unrelated, widely separated cultures.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: anthropology, human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology
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History
From neo- + evolutionism.
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