WordNet
n. (biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals [syn: theory of organic evolution]
Usage examples of "theory of evolution".
But all the Brits did to the Galapagos was send over Darwin for five weeks, and all they took away was the theory of evolution.
We could, for example, have pointed out that Darwin's theory of evolution explains how lower lifeforms can evolve into higher ones, which in turn makes it entirely reasonable that a human should evolve into an orangutan (while remaining a librarian, since there is no higher life form than a librarian).
Haldane, the marxist physiologist and geneticist who made a major contribution to the new synthetic theory of evolution in the 1920s and 1930s, when asked what attributes he might imagine a god to have.
The theory of evolution and natural selection permitted species to be regarded as fluid entities, constantly changing, and all ultimately derived from the simplest of primeval life forms.
You should see the contortions our geneticists have to go through, just because Saint Karl backed the wrong theory of evolution!
The creation of man by extraterrestrial intervention does not interfere with the theory of our ancestry or the theory of evolution.
He was known to say that he hadn't trusted the theory of evolution since he'd seen his first John Wayne movie.
By the time I was ten I had lived out the whole theory of evolution.
On the physical side, scientists have pointed out a close correspondence between Calvin's creed and the theory of evolution, which emphasizes the desperate struggle resulting from the survival of the fittest.
The invention of the telegraph, gas lighting, and Darwins theory of evolution were significantly altering the fabric of society.
In my opinion, the rich and famous prove Darwins theory of evolution.
But in that 'theory of evolution' which, gathering momentum for a century, has within the past twenty-five years swept so rapidly over Europe and America, we see the ground laid for a new sort of religion of Nature, which has entirely displaced Christianity from the thought of a large part of our generation.