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Neo-Darwinian

  • a word derived from Neo-Darwinism.
    neo-Darwinism
    noun
    the 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.
neo-Darwinian
  • a word derived from neo-Darwinism.
    neo-Darwinism
    noun
    the 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

There is the "Neo-Darwinian" view which attributes variation to the differences inherent in the germ borne by the individual, and not to the experience or behaviour of the individual in the course of his existence.

From Bergson and His Philosophy by John Alexander Gunn

As a matter of fact, Buffon is much more of a Neo-Darwinian than either Dr. Erasmus Darwin or Lamarck, for with him the variations are sometimes fortuitous. 

From Unconscious Memory by Samuel Butler

Besides, I am here taking Mr. Wallace as representative of the Neo-Darwinian school, one or other prominent member of which has given emphatic expression to each of the above propositions.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes

Therefore it is that for the sake of clearness I coined, several years ago, the terms "Neo-Darwinian" and "Ultra-Darwinian" whereby to designate the school in question.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes

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

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