ABSTRACT
At the beginning of this century R.R.Marett defined anthropology as ‘the whole history of man as fired and pervaded by the idea of evolution. Man in evolution-that is the subject in its full reach’ (Marett n.d.:7). Marett of course was a Darwinian and to him ‘anthropology was a child of Darwin’. There are unrepentant anthropologists who would still support this view despite over-whelming evidence that the Darwinian scheme is more ideology than science (Rifkin 1984:111-215; Kimura 1985:73-112; Eldredge 1985; Waddington 1975:253-66).
