neo-Darwinismn.
/ˌniːə(ʊ)ˈdɑːwᵻnɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌnioʊˈdɑrwənˌɪz(ə)m/ A theory of biological evolution (widely accepted since the 1920s) based on Darwin's theory of natural selection but incorporating the theories of later biologists regarding genes, inheritance, and mutation, particularly those of Weismann and Mendel (see Weismannism n., Mendelism n.).
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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
1891 Amer. Naturalist 25 298 The retiring president [of the Biological Society of Washington], Professor Lester F. Ward, delivered an address entitled ‘Neo-Darwinism and Neo-Lamarckism’, in which he took strong ground in favor of the latter doctrine.
1902 J. M. Baldwin Devel. & Evol. 135 The possible truth of either of the current doctrines of heredity, called Neo-Darwinism and Neo-Lamarckism respectively.
1921 G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah Pref. p. ix I habitually derided Neo-Darwinism as a ghastly idiocy.
1970 Observer 15 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) 18/1 All that neo-Darwinism does at present, the critics say, is to pronounce that ‘what survives, survives’.
1994 K. Kelly Out of Control xix. 375 According to the laws of neodarwinism, the environment, and only the environment, can select mutations, and the environment can never induce or direct mutations.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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