transformist
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Origin of transformist
1790–1800; transform + -ist, modeled on French transformiste
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The Transformist doctrine is, therefore, that one species of plants or animals, has in natural course grown out of another, through the aggregation of changes each exceedingly minute.
From The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by Gerard, John S.J.
Much the same may indeed be said even of the assumed fact of Organic Evolution underlying all Transformist theories.
From The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by Gerard, John S.J.
It has an article on you, but I have not yet read it; and another article, not yet read, by a very good man on the Transformist School.
From Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 by Marchant, James
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