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Neo-Darwinism

[nee-oh-dahr-wi-niz-uhm] / ˌni oʊˈdɑr wɪˌnɪz əm /
NOUN
survival of the fittest
Synonyms
WEAK
Darwinianism Darwinism adaptation evolution evolutionism law of the jungle natural law natural selection organic evolution phylogeny punctuated equilibrium social Darwinism social evolution

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Neo-Darwinism refers to any branch of science which combines Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection with Gregor Mendel's discipline of genetics.

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2022

Neo-Darwinism allows for hypertrophy, the phenomenon by which evolution overshoots its mark and produces some consequence not strictly useful to the ends of genetic replication, the human brain as case in point.

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2010

I had as yet no idea that a writer could attack Neo-Darwinism without attacking evolution. 

From Unconscious Memory by Butler, Samuel

When this is done the hollowness and the hatefulness of the long reign of the much more than Darwinian Neo-Darwinism is clear as day.

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various