The Neoevolutionists' Perspective Differed from the Nineteenth-Century Evolutionists' Ideas in a Number

The neoevolutionists' perspective differed from the nineteenth-century evolutionists' ideas in a number of ways. The neoevolutionists __________.

A) assumed a unilineal direction for society from savagery to barbarism to civilization
B) did not assume that sociocultural evolution toward complexity was always equated with progress
C) were ethnocentric and racist in their approach to understanding cultural evolution and complexity
D) assumed that civilization was the pinnacle of sociocultural development