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Edward Burnett Tylor  

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  • Edward B. Tylor, founder of the study and curriculum of anthropology, is considered to be the first cultural evolutionist anthropologist and the father of the science of anthropology. Tylor was born the son of Quakers on October 2, 1832 in London, England. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Tylor, Edward Burnett (1832–1917)]

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