Robert L. Carneiro

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American anthropologist (1927-2020)

United States AcademicsLived 1927 to 2020 · aged 93

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Robert Leonard Carneiro was an American anthropologist and curator of the American Museum of Natural History who is widely held to be one of the prominent sociocultural evolutionists.

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Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Robert Leonard Carneiro was an American anthropologist and curator of the American Museum of Natural History who is widely held to be one of the prominent sociocultural evolutionists. He is mostly known for his Circumscription theory which explains how early political states may have formed as a result of interactions between environmental constraints, population pressures, and warfare.

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