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Elman R. Service  

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  • Elman R. Service, a prominent cultural anthropologist of the 20th century, was born May 18, 1915 in Tecumseh, Michigan. His theory of cultural evolution that occurs as organic and superorganic factors influence different types of social organization in small-scale society is prominent among anthropologists, ethnologists, and social anthropologists. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Service, Elman R. (1915–1996)]

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