Darwinism
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See also: darwinism
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Darwin + -ism, coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1860.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɑːwɪnɪzəm/
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Noun[edit]
Darwinism (countable and uncountable, plural Darwinisms)
- Various concepts of development or evolution popularised by Charles Darwin's publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859.
- 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.
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principles of natural selection
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