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evolutionism

NOUN

natural selection

Synonyms

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Darwinian theory Darwinism adaptation artificial selection biological evolution evolution law of the jungle natural law phylogeny social Darwinism social evolution survival of the fittest theory of evolution

NOUN

survival of the fittest

Synonyms

WEAK

Darwinianism Darwinism Neo-Darwinism adaptation evolution law of the jungle natural law natural selection organic evolution phylogeny punctuated equilibrium social Darwinism social evolution

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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.

From Time Magazine Archive

Darwin's Origin of Species appeared in 1859, and marked another step in Spencer's evolutionism.

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)

And herein consisted his great advance upon the earlier evolutionism of Lamarck, Goethe, and Erasmus Darwin.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

And it is also the only evolutionism that seems to us to account for the building up of identical complex organs on independent lines of development.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

His doctrine bore indeed the name of evolutionism; it claimed to remount and redescend the course of the universal becoming; but, in fact, it dealt neither with becoming nor with evolution.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

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