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单词 evolutionism
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evolutionismn.

Brit. /ˌiːvəˈl(j)uːʃn̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ˌɛvəˈl(j)uːʃn̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌɛvəˈluʃəˌnɪz(ə)m/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: evolution n., -ism suffix.
Etymology: < evolution n. + -ism suffix. Compare German Evolutionismus (1834 in a philosophical context, 1869 or earlier in a geological context (in this sense after English: compare quot. 1869), 1871 with reference to Darwin's theories), French évolutionnisme (1873). Compare slightly earlier evolutionist n. 2.
Belief in or advocacy of a scientific or philosophical theory of evolution; spec. (a) acceptance of the occurrence of evolutionary change during the history of life, the Earth, etc.; (b) (adherence to) a philosophical doctrine which supposes evolution or development (esp. inherently progressive development) to be a fundamental principle of human or of universal history; (c) the application of evolutionary assumptions or principles in a particular sphere or field of study (cf. developmentalism n.).In the context of religious responses to scientific theory, often contrasted with creationism.
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the world > life > biology > theories > [noun] > of genetics or evolution
theory of preformation1756
Darwinizing1807
development hypothesis1845
generationism1847
theory of evolution1858
Darwinism1860
Darwinianism1861
monogenesis1864
monogenism1865
monogeny1865
pangenesis1868
evolutionism1869
phylogeny1869
polygenism1871
derivation1874
phylogenesis1875
transformism1878
biogenetic law1879
gastraea theory1879
fortuitism1881
organicism1883
hereditism1884
kinetogenesis1884
Lamarckianism1884
Lamarckism1884
neo-Lamarckianism1884
monogenesy1885
neo-Lamarckism1887
preformationism1890
neo-Darwinism1891
blastogenesis1893
Haeckel-ismus1894
Weismannism1894
preformism1895
Haeckelism1899
mutation theory1902
directivity1903
Mendelianism1903
Mendelism1903
hereditarianism1906
mutationism1912
selectionism1912
hologenesis1931
parsimony1931
Morganism1934
Lysenkoism1948
neutralism1972
punctuated equilibrium1972
saltationism1975
punctuationism1977
punctuationalism1978
adaptationism1980
geneticism1984
adaptationalism1985
1869 T. H. Huxley in Sci. Opin. 28 Apr. 487/1 The three schools of geological speculation which I have termed Catastrophism, Uniformitarianism, and Evolutionism.
1873 E. F. Burr Pater Mundi v. 112 No organic chain long enough to connect two species confessedly different has been brought to light. This could not have happened had evolutionism been true.
1875 F. M. Müller Chips from German Workshop IV. ix. 476 Haeckel denies all necessity of admitting a conscious agent; and von Hartmann sees in what is called the philosophy of evolutionism the strongest confirmation of idealism.
1888 Dict. National Biogr. at Darwin, Erasmus The permanent interest in his writings depends upon his exposition of the form of evolutionism afterwards expounded by Lamarck.
1914 Philos. Rev. 23 577 Though Bergson inconsistently explicitly declares his belief in a transcendent deity, prior and external to the evolving world, the real tendency..of his romantic evolutionism is towards temporalistic pantheism.
1953 Univ. Toronto Law Jrnl. 10 1 Although the term ‘evolutionism’ taken by itself is commonly understood to refer to the doctrine which stems from Darwin and Spencer, I think it preferable..to use the qualified expression ‘naturalistic evolutionism’ in order to distinguish it from an earlier Romantic-Idealistic movement of thought associated with the name of Hegel.
1976 I. M. Lewis Social Anthropol. in Perspective ii. 52 Durkheim's work marks the turning point between evolutionism and functionalism and provides the bridge to Malinowksi and Radcliffe-Brown, the authentic founders of modern social anthropology.
1998 A. Fadiman Ex Libris 50 The ‘home sanctuary’ seemed to him the last bulwark against irreligion, evolutionism..and female emancipation.
2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 29 Nov. 64/1 Theistic evolutionism would seem to demote the shaper of the universe to a deus absconditus who long ago set some processes in motion and then withdrew from the scene.
2005 Nature 6 Oct. 815/2 Ruse has in mind a distinction between evolution as a fact, evolution as a theory that offers mechanisms for evolutionary change, and ‘evolutionism’—a metaphysical, naturalistic world-view imbued with values as well as a strictly scientific narrative.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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