NEO-EVOLUTIONISM


The nineteenth-century classical evolutionists mainly talked about the cultural evolution with a view to find out cultural regularities or laws, but their findings and approaches were modified by the evolutionists of the twentieth century in the light of their new researches and methodological approaches to the origin of culture and, hence they are known as neo-evolutionists. Among those neoevolutionists, special mention may be made of three scholars viz. V. Gordon Childe (of England), Julian Steward and Leslie White of U.S.A , who have made significant contributions in the study of cultural evolution and their researches, of late, have thrown a new light on different dimensions of the origin of culture.