Lewis Henry Morgan divided human evolution into three categories: savagery, barbarianism, and civilization. He studied the kinship of the Iroquois tribe and determined there were different levels of kinship in each of the three categories (Erickson 2016). Edward Burnett Tylor took the three categories of Morgan further with savages practicing animatism, barbarians practicing polytheism, and civilized man practicing monotheism as described in our text in Classic Cultural Evolutionism section. John Lubbock broke the stages of religion into atheism, totemism, idolatry, and monotheism. In week one's film we learned Herbert Spencer determined societies were organisms with three main systems. The regulatory system consists of the government, the
