evolutionism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Such hazy and indistinct thinkers as these are still really at the prior stage of Lamarckian evolutionism.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

And while Dewey accepts an evolutionary view of reality in general, the idealist has found evolutionism, at least in its biological form, too limited in scope to serve the extensive interests of philosophy.

From John Dewey's logical theory by Howard, Delton Thomas

The Nestor of evolutionism, he had lived among two successive generations of thinkers, and over the third he ruled as king.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant