Relating to or characteristic of evolutionists or the practice of interpreting phenomena through evolutionary principles.
From 'evolutionist' + '-ic' suffix. A somewhat formal term used to describe methodologies or perspectives grounded in evolutionary thinking.
When anthropologists describe an 'evolutionistic approach' to culture, they mean analyzing how societies progressed from hunter-gatherers to industrial—though this 19th-century model is now seen as too simplistic.
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