ALL meanings of darwinism
Dar·win·ism
D d - 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