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evolutionary: one meaning of this term refers to the
now out-dated notion that societies are organized in terms of how far they have
developed in terms of their social and cultural organization. Some social
evolutionists believed that all societies had to pass through certain stages
over time as they moved from being simple to complex in their culture and
organization. In biological terms, however, it refers to the more current notion
that human populations and other living creatures have genetically adapted to
changing environments by descent through random mutation and processes of
natural selection.
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