Neo-Darwinian
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a word derived from
Neo-Darwinism.
neo-Darwinismnounthe theory of evolution as expounded by later students of Charles Darwin, especially Weismann, holding that natural selection accounts for evolution and denying the inheritance of acquired characters.
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a word derived from
neo-Darwinism.
neo-Darwinismnounthe theory of evolution as expounded by later students of Charles Darwin, especially Weismann, holding that natural selection accounts for evolution and denying the inheritance of acquired characters.
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In the age of Neo-Darwinian evolution, that’s putting it mildly to say the least.
From Forbes ● May 9, 2013
The Neo-Lamarckian theory supplies thus what is lacking in the Neo-Darwinian.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler
But my uncle was as impervious to what Darwin really said as any Neo-Darwinian nowadays.
From Back to Methuselah by Bernard Shaw
After all, you cannot understand Moses without imagination nor Spurgeon without metaphysics; but you can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency.
From Back to Methuselah by Bernard Shaw
All of which is rank heresy to the Neo-Darwinian, who imagines that if you stop Circumstantial Selection, you not only stop development but inaugurate a rapid and disastrous degeneration.
From Back to Methuselah by Bernard Shaw
At the workshop the philosophers and scientists each added his own gloss to neo-Darwinian reductive naturalism or materialistic neo-Darwinian reductionism or naturalistic materialism or reductive determinism.
From Forbes ● Mar. 21, 2013
But they’ve done nothing to alter the going paradigm of neo-Darwinian evolution.
From Forbes ● Aug. 26, 2011