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单词 un-darwinian
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un-Darwinianadj.

Brit. /ˌʌndɑːˈwɪnɪən/, U.S. /ˌəndɑrˈwɪniən/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix1, Darwinian adj.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + Darwinian adj.
Differing from, at odds with, or not explained by Charles Darwin's theory of the evolution of living organisms by means of natural selection, or evolutionary theory more generally; cf. Darwinism n. 2a. Also in extended use: preventing, counteracting, or not characterized by competition based on fitness or merit.
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Lamarckian1846
Darwinian1859
Darwinite1860
polygenistic1860
vestigian1860
Darwinistic1863
monogenistic1865
un-Darwinian1869
pre-Darwinian1870
Darwinic1871
hereditarian1873
monogenetic1873
pangenetic1875
phylogenic1875
evolutionistic1876
Darwinical1881
neo-Lamarckian1884
Darwinizing1886
neo-Darwinian1888
unigenist1896
Haeckelian1897
pangenic1900
Mendelian1902
monogenic1902
pre-Mendelian1902
Weismannian1903
autonomistic1904
adaptionist1915
adaptationist1931
gradualist1931
selectionist1944
Morganist1949
saltationist1954
punctuational1976
punctuationalist1978
punctuationist1979
1869 Overland Monthly Sept. 253/1 Dynasties, and institutions, and races of men in society, are quite as much affected by that un-Darwinian agent, the human will, to say nothing of the Divine.
1881 Canad. Naturalist New Ser. 9 75 In their un-Darwinian account of the origin of man the Malay-Polynesians, Algonquins and Maya-Quichés agree.
1920 Social Welfare July 271/2 It makes me angry to be told that in helping poverty we are un-Darwinian, and that it checks the survival of the fittest.
1955 H. Hodgkinson Doubletalk 43 ‘The modern theory of mutations’ is regarded as un-Darwinian.
1977 ‘D. Cory’ Bennett iv. 121 If he..had evolved from a mere something..to a sentient personality, then Bennett in a most un-Darwinian way gave an opposite impression.
1994 Proc. IFIP Congr. III. 490 Protection..was surely not intended to usher in an un-Darwinian environment where even the unfit had the right to survive.
2014 Evening Star (Nexis) 14 Feb. It's an attack on Selfish Gene theory, arguing Darwinism is a much richer thing than Dawkinism and that Dawkins is totally un-Darwinian.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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