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Darwinian
/ dɑːˈwɪnɪən /
adjective
- of or relating to Charles Darwin or his theory of evolution by natural selection
noun
- a person who accepts, supports, or uses this theory
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Other Words From
- anti-Dar·wini·an noun adjective
- non-Dar·wini·an adjective noun
- post-Dar·wini·an adjective
- pre-Dar·wini·an adjective
- pro-Dar·wini·an adjective noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Darwinian1
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Example Sentences
Still, even if there is an objective, universal morality in this sense, there are both epistemic and motivational challenges here, given our Darwinian background.
We simply don’t know whether the experimentations of Darwinian evolution on exoplanets and distant galaxies are destined to converge to strategies familiar to us.
If you are an alien species seeding a planet with some prototypical artificial organism, maybe it’s better to seed it with Darwinian creatures, rather than Lamarckians.
We are near the end of Darwinian evolution, but technological evolution of intelligent beings is just beginning.
The Darwinian attention derby happens not just between the different arts, but also within them.
I suppose the main argument goes like this: We are no longer subject to Darwinian natural selection.
People born into malarial regions have a fierce Darwinian pressure placed upon them—the disease affects everyone in the area.
In the Darwinian world of media and politics, hardly any primal force compares to Clinton Clout.
When you apply Darwinian thinking to social studies, you have to be careful.
What do you think are the positive forces that Darwinian social theory can bring to our society?
Why that note of disappointment, almost of resentment, as to Tolstogub's relation to the Darwinian theory?
The instrumental music of the church has apparently been regulated on the Darwinian theory of “selection.”
These Darwinian and Marxian explanations constitute what is known as the materialistic explanation of history.
From another point of view again, the Darwinian theory is at variance with the Scoliae and their prey.
The Darwinian movement took formal Christianity unawares, suddenly.
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