Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Cultural evolution" in English language version.
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[The] 'golden age' of evolutionary social science came rather suddenly to an end shortly after the turn of the century, however, and the first few decades of the twentieth century represented a sort of 'dark age' for evolutionism. [...] Evolutionary theories did not die out completely, but they were seldom seen, and even the word 'evolution' came to be uttered at serious risk to one's intellectual reputation.