Darwinism
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- noun
- /ˈdɑrwɪnɪzəm/
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darwinismo
- The origin of such cooperation has been a puzzle for Darwinism ever since, well, Darwin.
- social Darwinism
- Darwinism and eugenics
- neural Darwinism
That's what Alfred Wallace was trying to tell us, the Co founder of Darwinism, our mind, the brain doesn't produce the mind.
- That's what Alfred Wallace was trying to tell us, the Co founder of Darwinism, our mind, the brain doesn't produce the mind.
- But then, he says, since Darwinism has displaced design from the minds of the scientific, theism has lost its foothold.
- I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.
- So like we had to rise up, you know, it's Darwinism.
Examples
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"I and many other critics of Darwinism have no agenda other than seeking the truth."
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And here again, Darwinism seems just neutral.
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Throughout much of the United States, conservative Christians never stopped fighting their war against Darwinism.
Academic text (2006) -
We call this third view natural selection by survival of the fittest, or Darwinism.
Academic text (1990) -
I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.
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Even the genes that cause hereditary diseases are viewed differently in the light of Darwinism.
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Darwinism explains how species change over time through natural selection, as proposed by Darwinism.
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Many scientists support Darwinism because it provides a framework for understanding evolutionary processes.
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In discussing evolution, Darwinism is often contrasted with alternative theories like intelligent design.
Synonyms
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The idea that living things change over time by natural selection
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The scientific theory that plants and animals developed from earlier forms over time
A modern theory that new species form by changes in genes and natural selection
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A modern theory that new species form by changes in genes and natural selection
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Darwinism comes from the name Darwin and the ending -ism, which means 'belief' or 'system', like in Buddhism or capitalism. So Darwinism is the set of ideas about how living things change over time that were suggested by Charles Darwin.