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EVOLUTIONISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does evolutionism mean?
• EVOLUTIONISM (noun)
The noun EVOLUTIONISM has 1 sense:
1. (biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals
Familiarity information: EVOLUTIONISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
evolutionism; theory of evolution; theory of organic evolution
Hypernyms ("evolutionism" is a kind of...):
scientific theory (a theory that explains scientific observations)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evolutionism"):
Darwinism (a theory of organic evolution claiming that new species arise and are perpetuated by natural selection)
Lamarckism (a theory of organic evolution claiming that acquired characteristics are transmitted to offspring)
punctuated equilibrium; theory of punctuated equilibrium (a theory of evolution holding that evolutionary change in the fossil record came in fits and starts rather than in a steady process of slow change)
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