selectionist
- adjective
- /sɪˈlɛkʃənɪst/
- Specialized
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seleccionista
- The selectionist approach in biology emphasizes how natural selection shapes the diversity of species.
- selectionist test
Examples
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Ideologies, too, must pass a selectionist test to remain credible.
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There is a selectionist test for establishing "truth," however temporarily.
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A Selectionist Theory of Knowledge
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Toulmin's selectionist criteria for distinguishing successful from failed concepts do the same.
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But can my interpretive stance, on which in the last analysis the credibility of the other selectionist tests depends, be falsified?
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While there is, as I noted above, so much history available that any reporting of it is inevitably selectionist and limited, that (like with underdetermination of the Constitution) does not mean that any selection of historical facts is equivalent to any other.
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Does the selectionist stance allow the inference that any balance sheet about scientific progress will surely be the victim of the cognitive limits of the balancers, and that judgment will still be subject to the nonscientific beliefs of the judges?
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What follows are (1) a series of selectionist arguments for expected contrasts between male and female sexual psychologies and (2) specific hypotheses, derived from these contrasts, about sexual fantasies.
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Many scientists endorse a selectionist perspective, believing that evolutionary processes are driven primarily by natural selection.
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In discussing environmental changes, the selectionist theory suggests that certain traits become more prevalent over time.
Synonyms
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Relating to modern evolution theory that explains change by genes and groups of animals or plants
Connected with Charles Darwin's idea that living things change over time by natural selection
How Selectionist
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Morphology
Etymology
Selectionist comes from the word selection, which is like select and means 'to choose', plus the ending -ist that marks a view or approach. So calling an idea selectionist means it supports natural selection as the main explanation.