evolutionism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

That is to say that neo-Lamarckism is no more able than any other form of evolutionism to solve the problem.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

The question whether evolutionism offers a true or a false answer to this problem is not, therefore, a question to be solved by appeals to particular facts, such as biology and physics reveal.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand

That double communication marks the date of birth of modern evolutionism.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

This is the principle of natural selection or survival of the fittest—the great principle which Darwin and Wallace added to the evolutionism of Lamarck and his successors.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant