Diffusion: Transmission and Acceptance

Abstract

lution."1 It is hardly necessary to say that evolution, thus understood, is very differ? ent from the organic evolution of natural history and that it means evolution due to human action and to the unfolding of all that the spirit of man has devised and the power of man has created. Evolution, thus defined, belongs to the realm of history. Are historically minded ethnologists justified in claiming the same principle for their own field? In other words: are the