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The nineteenth-century British anthropologist who is credited with the development of the concept of culture through an evolutionary perspective where the most evolved societies resembled the British societies in which he lived was?

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We talk about Sr Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917). He´s considered the founder of cultural anthropology. His theories were influenced by Charles Darwin´s theory of biological evolution. Tylor developed the thesis that societies evolve from primitive to modern cultures, advocating the idea of studying all past civilizations as part of the history of a single human thought. His definition of culture is the most widely accepted by anthropologists today.

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