Wenten sane ngusulang indik "penemuan independen" sekadi Lewis Henry Morgan, taler mapanampen sane pateh suksmannyane inggih punika  kelompok  sane matiosan sampun pateh  ngalintangin paletan evolusi budaya (suryanin  taler evolusionisme sosial klasik).
Some of those who advocated "independent invention", like Lewis Henry Morgan, additionally supposed that similarities meant that different groups had passed through the same stages of cultural evolution (See also classical social evolutionism).