Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several theories that have evolved over time. 2 The theory of evolution.
Usage examples of "evolutionary theory".
Many of the standard criticisms of evolutionary theory stem from common misunderstandings, not from what the theory actually proposes.
Such ideas, which derive from views about the place of humanity in nature that long pre-date Darwin and the birth of modern biology, very much misunderstand evolutionary theory.
Under the guise of `creationism', a serious effort continues to be made to prevent evolutionary theory - the most powerful integrating idea in all of biology, and essential for other sciences ranging from astronomy to anthropology - from being taught in the schools.
You know how in evolutionary theory intelligence isn't a cause of nature, but only an effect, an accidental effect?
From evolutionary theory, DNAs from different species should exhibit a branching pattern that reflects the same time sequence of divergence as it is deduced by other methods.
Furthermore, whales are supposed to be mammals who returned to a life in the sea - so, if the evolutionary theory contained all the answers, why should they have ever lost what to most mammals is an exquisite and finely tuned sense organ?
If you want to talk technical evolutionary theory, it's an instance of the automatic suppression of a peduncle.
Walnut bookcases were crowded with journals about genetics, evolutionary theory, pharmacology and medicine.