evolutionist
进化论者,演化论者,演化者,进化主义者
Definitions
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- : a person who believes in or supports a theory of evolution, especially in biology.
- : a person who supports a policy of gradual growth or development rather than sudden change or expansion.
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Also ev·o·lu·tion·is·tic.
- : of or relating to evolution or evolutionists.
- : believing in or supporting a theory of evolution, especially in biology.
Examples
Unlike Darwin, many evolutionists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries had theorized that the human family tree was rooted in Asia.
Considering cultural change in this way has led cultural evolutionists to rely heavily on the subfield of population genetics—and to use models that assume cultural continuity works solely through inheritance.
I am a theist and an evolutionist, to be sure, but the combined term makes no sense to me.
His wife was by his bedside every day, insisting they pray together, never mind that Ebert is an openly agnostic evolutionist.
Such cases may be regarded by the evolutionist as exceptional, and he may invent some new hypothesis to account for them.
Favier himself, as will be seen, is an evolutionist after his own fashion, an evolutionist of a very daring type.
This principle the evolutionist applies to the whole universe which he says came in a similar way.
All these have been in turn combatted by other evolutionist writers, and the war goes on and has produced libraries of volumes.
Prof. Conn, an evolutionist, admits the presence of many facts disclosed by geology which oppose the theory of Evolution.