evolutionist
noun
a person who believes in or supports a theory of evolution, especially in biology.
evolutionism
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a word derived from
evolutionist.
Example Sentences
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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty-one years had come and gone since the father of modern scientific evolutionism had launched upon the world his tentative work.
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
But both these sorts of evolutionism have in common the emphasis on progress, that is, upon a continual change from the worse to the better, or from the simpler to the more complex.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
The question whether evolutionism offers a true or a false answer to this problem is not, therefore, a question to be solved by appeals to particular facts, such as biology and physics reveal.
From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Darwin's Origin of Species appeared in 1859, and marked another step in Spencer's evolutionism.
From Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson
