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- [dahr-wuh-niz-uh m]
- /ˈdɑr wəˌnɪz əm/
- /ˈdɑːwɪnɪzm/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [dahr-wuh-niz-uh m]
- /ˈdɑr wəˌnɪz əm/
Definitions of darwinism word
- noun darwinism the theory of the origin of animal and plant species by evolution through a process of natural selection 3
- noun darwinism the Darwinian theory 3
- noun darwinism adherence to the Darwinian theory 3
- noun darwinism 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. 1
- noun darwinism Various concepts of development or evolution popularised by Charles Darwin's publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859. 0
- noun darwinism 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. 0
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Origin of darwinism
First appearance:
before 1855 One of the 30% newest English words
First recorded in 1855-60; Darwin + -ism
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darwinism popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 80% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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noun darwinism
- adaptation — An adaptation of a book or play is a film or a television programme that is based on it.
- social darwinism — a 19th-century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated.
- survival of the fittest — (not in technical use) natural selection.
- artificial selection — a process in the breeding of animals and in the cultivation of plants by which the breeder chooses to perpetuate only those forms having certain desirable inheritable characteristics.
- law of the jungle — a system or mode of action in which the strongest survive, presumably as animals in nature or as human beings whose activity is not regulated by the laws or ethics of civilization.
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