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who established evolutinism as a theoretical orientation in anthropology?
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Well, it was always there in anthropology, even from the beginning. It depends on the variety of evolutionism. I would say Lewis Henry Morgan was the earliest out-and-out evolutionist, though before Morgan, E.B. Tylor and Herbert Spencer were inflected with evolutionary thought. All of the first theorists of anthropology were influenced by Darwin. Including Marx. So that's four names right there, more or less contemporaries.
You have it backwards- anthropology was based upon the theory of evolution, not the other way around. And Darwin is the father of evolution.