单词 | darwinist |
释义 | Darwinistn.adj. A. n. A follower of Charles Darwin; a person who accepts or promotes Darwinism (in scientific and extended use); = Darwinian n. 2.See also neo-Darwinist n., social Darwinist n. and adj. at social adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > theories > person holding theory > [noun] > of genetics or evolution transmutationist1844 progressionist1845 developist1846 developmentist1847 monogenist1857 polygenist1857 Darwinian1860 Darwinite1860 developmentarian1860 permutationist1860 developmentalist1862 monogenesist1862 polygenesist1862 Darwinist1864 evolutionist1866 natural selectionist1869 homogenist1874 derivationist1875 transformista1879 hereditarian1881 hereditist1885 derivatist1887 preformationist1888 fortuitist1890 Lamarckite1890 neo-Lamarckian1890 neo-Darwinist1891 vestigian1891 neo-Darwinian1892 selectionist1892 preformist1895 recapitulationist1897 transmissionist1899 Mendelian1903 mutationist1903 Weismannian1903 adaptationist1904 Mendelist1906 Lysenkoist1949 Morganist1950 Lamarckian1953 gradualist1970 macromutationist1975 punctuationalist1978 saltationist1978 punctuationist1980 1864 J. Hunt tr. C. Vogt Lect. on Man xvi. 464 No Darwinist [Ger. Darwinist], if we must call them so, has either raised that question or drawn the above inference. 1875 Scribners Monthly July 350/1 It [sc. natural selection] accounts, according to the Darwinist, not only for the production of different forms of one type, but for the differentiation of the most complex organizations from the simplest. 1900 Amer. Naturalist 34 760 This gives..the explanations of the origin of different types of coloration as advocated by such Darwinists as Poulton, by such Lamarckians as Cunningham, and by those who, like Wallace occupy intermediate grounds. 1958 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 9 111 The leading German Darwinist, Ernst Haeckel, defended the theory of evolution against Virchow's charge. 1975 W. Feinberg Reason & Rhetoric i. 42 To a strict Darwinist, man could no longer accurately perceive himself as an advance over other species except by some rather mundane standards. 2005 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Nov. 76/1 Just as Charles Darwin studied animals to discover the pattern behind their development, Literary Darwinists read books in search of innate patterns of human behavior. B. adj. Of or relating to Darwinism; characterized by or advocating Darwinism; Darwinian. ΚΠ 1884 Science 28 Mar. 388/2 Jaeger is quoted by Semper as saying that there has been enough Darwinist philosophizing and that it is now time to subject the numerous hypotheses to the test of investigation. 1925 Denton (Texas) Record-Chron. 16 June 5/1 Judge Onion, who is evidently an anti-evolutionist himself, fined the belligerent Darwinist family $5 each for disturbing the peace. 1949 Soviet Stud. 1 114 While defending the Darwinist concept of selection by intra-species struggle for the animal and plant world, they dissociated themselves from ‘social Darwinism’. 1995 J. Shreeve Neandertal Enigma (1996) ii. 50 Brace's own thinking, like that of many American physical anthropologists, had been deeply influenced by the ‘New Synthesis’ of Darwinist principles with modern population genetics. 2002 U.S. News & World Rep. 21 Jan. 24/3 The Darwinist process would begin with software randomly generating a million sets of rules for buying and selling stocks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1864 |
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