Definitions for Neo-Darwinism

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Neo-Darwinism ne·o-Dar·win·ism

Spelling: [nee-oh-dahr-wi-niz-uh m]

IPA: /ˌni oʊˈdɑr wɪˌnɪz əm/

Neo-Darwinism is a 13 letter English word.

You can make 1559 anagrams from letters in Neo-Darwinism (-adeiimnnorsw).

Definitions for Neo-Darwinism

noun

1. 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.
2. any modern theory of evolution holding that species evolve by natural selection acting on genetic variation.

Origin of Neo-Darwinism

First recorded in 1900-05

Examples for Neo-Darwinism

I had as yet no idea that a writer could attack neo-Darwinism without attacking evolution.

We would emphasise that it is not Darwinism we are attacking, but that which is erroneously called neo-Darwinism.

This affords a striking instance of the pernicious influence which neo-Darwinism is exercising on the minds of men to-day.

neo-Darwinism is a pathological growth on Darwinism, which, we fear, can be removed only by a surgical operation.