顾晓鸣同志在《社会科学战线》87年第4期上撰文认为:〈1〉近代文化研究的发端是进化论的文化人类学,是生物进化论研究的成果和伴随物。达尔文关于人类进化和“性择”等研究,开了文化研究之先声.和达尔文同时代、并互有启发的社会学家和哲学家斯宾塞,在把社会类比于生物机体的同时,持别指出了社会不同于生物机体的“超机体”的特征,并开始应用人种志的材料, Comrade Gu Xiaoming wrote in the fourth issue of “Social Science Front” in 1987 that: <1> The starting point of modern cultural research is the cultural anthropology of evolution, which is the result and accompaniment of the study of biological evolution. Darwin’s research on human evolution and “sexual selection” opened the prelude to cultural studies.With the contemporary and inspirational sociologist and philosopher Spencer, Darwin, in the social analogy with the biological body at the same time, Separately pointed out that the community is different from the biological body of “super body” features, and began to apply ethnographic materials,