Although, the theory of unilineal evolution emphasizes the importance of the evolutionary stages in all societies, several social evolutionists incorporated their own ideas and personal beliefs to form another interpretation of unilineal evolution. One of these social evolutionists and a founding father of anthropology Edward Burnett Tylor, explains the theory of unilineal evolution as a “linear” progressive model which all human societies are categorized into different evolutionary stages. (Reader 4) The primitive stages are located at the bottom of the linear model and the higher “civilized” stages are located at the top. (Reader 4) Tylor believed that all human societies have the capability to progress through the evolutionary stages regardless
