Natural evolution (narturwüchsig) is the uncontrived growth of a society. It can be seen in the movement from a single family to the expansion of that family into a tribe, or the tribe created by the intermarriage of families or combination of tribes. The migratory nature of some tribes is evidence of their using up the resources of one place and then moving on to another. Since people by nature are not settled, all of this movement and adjusting can be called natural evolution.
G. Scott Harrison
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