Crossword clues for darwinian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Darwinian \Dar*win"i*an\, n. An advocate of Darwinism.
Darwinian \Dar*win"i*an\, a. [From the name of Charles Darwin, an English scientist.] Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements.
Note: This theory was put forth by Darwin in 1859 in a work entitled ``The Origin of species by Means of Natural Selection.'' The author argues that, in the struggle for existence, those plants and creatures best fitted to the requirements of the situation in which they are placed are the ones that will live; in other words, that Nature selects those which are to survive. This is the theory of natural selection or the survival of the fittest. He also argues that natural selection is capable of modifying and producing organisms fit for their circumstances. See Development theory, under Development.
Usage examples of "darwinian".
These facts convince me that he was at no time a thorough-going Darwinian, but was throughout an unconscious Lamarckian, though ever anxious to conceal the fact alike from himself and from his readers.
The second is: Has the period been anything like enough for the deposition of the strata which must have been deposited if all organic forms have been evolved by minute steps, according to the Darwinian theory?
The vague use of an imperfectly-understood doctrine of chance, has led Darwinian supporters, first, to confuse the two cases above distinguished, and secondly, to imagine that a very slight balance in favour of some individual sport must lead to its perpetuation.
At the same time I admit, that as against the Darwinian view, many of them seem quite unanswerable.
Desperate, and terrified, in the face of this Darwinian onslaught from the stars.
Until the mindless theory of Charles Darwinian natural selection was finally discredited, and a mindful theory of evolution was substituted in its place, neither Mr.
Indeed the kind of people who get on best in the world - and what test to a Darwinian can be comparable to this?
The one is the Darwinian way, by spontaneous variation, that is to say, by variation due to minute physical circumstances affecting the individual in the germ.
Darwinians, do not believe, and often cannot even understand, the distinctive Darwinian addition to the evolutionary doctrine - namely, the principle of natural selection.
The Darwinian analogy between artificial selection and natural selection is also in opposition to the facts.
But if it is inutile, it is not Darwinian, for Darwinism says evolution is utilitarian.
Actually all the technics of Darwinian evolution are simply tautological.
The problem of descent in the Darwinian picture is treated as finding the interrelations of the species.
This primacy of the spiritual inverts the Darwinian materialism on the doctrine of utility.
But nowhere else, unless it be later in the nineteenth century among Darwinian anthropologists and phrenologists, was it made the basis of a scientific subject matter as it was in comparative linguistics or philology.