#social evolution
- Bachofen — A surname of Swiss origin, universally associated with Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815-1887), a famous jurist, philologist, and social anthropologist. He is recognized as one of the pioneers of evolutionary anthropology due to his seminal work 'Mother Right' (Das Mutterrecht, 1861), in which he formulated the first systematic theory regarding the existence of a prehistoric matriarchal stage in human social evolution.