Evolutionism Synonyms

ĕvə-lo͝oshə-nĭzəm, ēvə-
(biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. theory of evolution
  2. theory of organic evolution

Words Related to Evolutionism

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Evolutionism Sentence Examples

  • Moreover, whatever the value of Goethe's labours in that field, they were not published before 1820, long after evolutionism had taken a new departure from the works of Treviranus and Lamarck - the first of its advocates who were equipped for their task with the needful large and accurate knowledge of the phenomena of life as a whole.

  • In other words, in spite of his intentions he does not succeed in giving a metaphysic of evolutionism.

  • Then, agreeing with evolutionism, that things are necessarily determined by forces, but with Leibnitz that body is merely passive,.

  • His reactionary and retarding ideas as a special creationist and his advocacy of the cataclysmic theory of change exerted a baneful influence until overthrown by the uniformitarianism of James Hutton (1726-1797) and Charles Lyell (1797-1875) and the evolutionism of Darwin.

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