Darwinism

//ˈdɑːwɪnɪzəm// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Various concepts of development or evolution popularised by Charles Darwin's publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of Darwinism. alt-of
  3. 3
    a theory of organic evolution claiming that new species arise and are perpetuated by natural selection wordnet
  4. 4
    The principles of natural selection set out in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859), more strictly defined by August Weismann and developed by other authors into a central part of the modern evolutionary synthesis. countable, uncountable

Synonyms

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darwinianismdarwinianism

Example

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"The historical thesis can be summarized by saying that Darwinism has undergone three stages of evolution."

Etymology

From Darwin + -ism, coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1860.

Related phrases

social Darwinismnatural selectionnobel prizesurvival of fittest

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