anthropology experiences a major change in theory. In biological

anthropology, biological anthropologists adopted an approach which

on the gene. They saw the human evolution as the process of genetic

adaptation to the environment. In the mean time, there were also

analogies to evolution. Cultural evolution also followed a process of

In the field of anthropology, a very important theory is that of

sociobiologists. Sociobiologists focus on adaptation and reproductive

success rather than progress toward perfection. Edward O. Wilson was

of the most important of them. He adopted an approach that focused on

level of the gene. He saw social behavior as controlled, in principle,

particular genes, and he saw evolution as occurring at this level

reproductive success amounted to increasing the frequency of certain

in future generations. However, the insistence of sociobiologists on

grounding at least some behavior in universal human genetic

runs contrary to cultural anthropologists' emphasis on the primacy of

culture itself as the determinant of human social life.

1962 On the non-existence of human race. Current Anthropology 3

concept of race. He pointed out that although it is true that there is

frequencies of one or more, usually several to many, genetic variables,

approach involves the search for human universals. People advocating

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