Humankind at the Brink

For many decades Cultural and Social Anthropology have been dominated by the doctrine of Cultural Evolutionism. 'A Scrutiny of Cultural Theories' reveals that this concept can no longer be sustained.The viable alternative, on which the main body of this book is based is a Diffusionist interpretation of humanities' historical process.Unfortunately, to do justice to the title of this book, human ingenuity, having developed nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, has brought us now to the brink of biological extinction.