This article examines some elements of evolving anthropology in the light of the concept of time. Maintains that the ambiguity of modern ideas of time, involving the idea of history, melancoly, imagination of wild breeds and the worship of biography, is the germ of evolving theories; it is therefore the germ of anthropology itself. He begins this analysis with a brief approach to L. H. Morgan, E.B. Tylor and J.G. Frazer and his work in the fields of religion and social organisation. It concludes, as a preliminary point, that by locating non-Western societies as distant in time, it may have been the source of a series of studies on time and other key categories that are still expected to bear fruit. Keywords: evolutionary, anthropology of time, social organisation, anthropology history, melancoly, Colombian anthropology. Abstract This paper examines elements of evolutionist anthropology through the concept of time. It argues that the Ambiguity of the modern concept of time, in which the concept of history, measured, the imagination of Savage races and the biography cult are involved, is the source of the evolutionist thesis; therefore, it is the very source of anthropology. This analysis begins with a brief approach to L. H. Morgan, E. B. Tylor and J. G. Frazer and their works in religion and social organisation fields. It concluded, in a preliminary way, that evolutionism, by placing the non-Western societies as very Distant in time, may have been a source for a set of studies about time and some other fundamental categories which are still to yield their best results. Keywords: evolutionary, anthropology of time, social organisation, history of anthropology, melancholy, Colombian anthropology.