technological factor as the most important factor in the evolution of society and is similar to ideas in the later works of Gerhard Lenski, the theory of the Kardashev scale, and some notions of technological singularity. Selected publications Ethnological Essays: Selected Essays of Leslie A. White. University of New Mexico Press. 1987. The Evolution of Culture: The Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome. 1959. The Science of Culture: A study of man and civilization. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1949. The Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico. American Anthropological Association Memoir 60, 1949. The Pueblo of San Felipe. American Anthropological Association Memoir No. 38, 1938. The Pueblo of Santo Domingo. American Anthropological Association Memoir 60, 1935. The Acoma Indians. Bureau of American Ethnology, 47th annual report, pp. 1–192. Smithsonian Institution, 1932. See also List of important publications in anthropology References Further reading Leslie A. White: Evolution and Revolution in Anthropology by William Peace. University of Nebraska Press, 2004 (the definitive biography of White). Richard Beardsley. An appraisal of Leslie A. White's scholarly influence. American Anthropologist 78:617–620, 1976. Jerry D. Moore. Leslie White: Evolution Emergent. Chapter 13 of Visions of Culture. pp. 169–180. AltaMira, 1997. Elman Service. Leslie Alvin White, 1900–1975. American Anthropologist 78:612–617, 1976. The Leslie White Papers - Finding guide and information about Leslie White's papers at the Bentley Historical library. Columbia College (New York) alumni University at Buffalo alumni 1900 births 1975 deaths People from Salida, Colorado University of Michigan faculty Neoevolutionists 20th-century American anthropologists Theoretical historians