单词 | neo-darwinist |
释义 | neo-Darwinistn.adj. A. n. A proponent or advocate of neo-Darwinism. 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 1891 L. F. Ward in Glimpses of Cosmos (1915) IV. 257 There is strictly speaking only one prominent question before the biological world and that is the question whether qualities that are acquired after birth are capable of being transmitted to descendants. Darwinism in its original entirety..admits such transmission. But by the new school of neo-Darwinists this is denied. 1922 V. Kellogg Human Life ii. 57 Altruism..is just as truly a fundamental biologic factor of evolution as is the cruel, strictly self-regarding, exterminating kind of struggle for existence with which the Neo-Darwinists try to fill our eyes and ears. 1972 Listener 3 Aug. 138/2 You have said one or two things which would be regarded by neo-Darwinists as treasonable. 2000 A. Milne Sci. Catastrophic Events iv. 47 Most evolutionary biologists are closet neo-Darwinists to avoid having to invent a creator or being labeled as vitalists. B. adj. Of or relating to neo-Darwinism. ΚΠ 1954 Q. Rev. Biol. 29 354/2 Is the neo-Darwinist view not too mechanical, too dependent upon chance, and too arbitrary in excluding the possible significance of final causes? 1974 Evolution 28 631/1 A better method is to select for behavioral changes and see if results conform with expectations of neodarwinist theory. 1987 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 38 413 The gene is not quite the permanent entity that bean-bag genetics [and] neo-Darwinist evolutionary theory..assume it to be. 2001 U.S. News & World Rep. Special Coll. Ed.: Mysteries of Faith 49/1 Atheistic naturalism, says Johnson, ‘is not merely the conclusion that neo-Darwinists draw from their scientific theory’ but rather ‘the metaphysical basis of the theory itself’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1891 |
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