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darwinism

/dahr-wuh-niz-uhm/US // ˈdɑr wəˌnɪz əm //UK // (ˈdɑːwɪˌnɪzəm) //

达尔文主义,达尔文学说,达尔文学派,达文主义

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the Darwinian theory that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.

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Examples

  • A prediction for the date of the president's ouster, a lawsuit against Darwinism and other terrific ideas from America's fringe.

  • But in our past there has been another term for it - Social Darwinism, every man and woman for him or herself.

  • Our Constitution, Holmes famously wrote, does not enact social Darwinism.

  • He is a not just a grinning creationist, he is also willing to disdain Darwinism with a sinister pugnacity.

  • At a time when Darwinism was bringing a sword into the intellectual world, he lived apparently uninterested and untouched by it.

  • Only the other day I read in my newspaper the triumphant proclamation of some clergyman that "Darwinism" had been overthrown.

  • Among these are several on anthropology, on political economy, and even on Darwinism.

  • One of the speakers, a clergyman, said that Darwinism and infidelity were responsible for criminal driving.

  • He thinks that if he can prove that the evolutionists kill people, he will have disproved Darwinism.