evolutionist
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a person who believes in or supports a theory of evolution, especially in biology.
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a person who supports a policy of gradual growth or development rather than sudden change or expansion.
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An evolutionist is someone who believes that all organic life evolves from generation to generation through a process called natural selection. Evolutionist theories are those that are based on this idea. The theory of evolution––long accepted by all credible scientists––is questioned by fundamentalist Christians, who prefer the Biblical creation story. They are called Creationists, and evolutionist-creationist battles rage wherever science is taught.
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In later life, they became a "body evolutionist", proposing a new gender that was beyond male and female.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2020
But he was not an evolutionist, and that made all the difference.
From Salon • Jan. 12, 2014
In an elegant close reading of Darwin's final book on earthworms, alongside family letters, Phillips highlighted what the great evolutionist called his "slow & silent side attacks" on sceptics.
From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2012
Bowlby was very influenced by primatology and I was influenced by Bowlby, so essentially this kindly Victorian evolutionist was right in there in the nursery with me.
From Scientific American • Mar. 16, 2012
He said that it was absurd to doubt that a man could be a theist and an evolutionist, as someone had said.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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