evolutionism
- a word derived from evolutionist.
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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The predominant interest of evolutionism is in the question of human destiny, or at least of the destiny of Life.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Russell, Bertrand
That double communication marks the date of birth of modern evolutionism.
From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant
This is the principle of natural selection or survival of the fittest—the great principle which Darwin and Wallace added to the evolutionism of Lamarck and his successors.
From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant
Such hazy and indistinct thinkers as these are still really at the prior stage of Lamarckian evolutionism.
From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant