Associations to the word «Darwinism»

Wiktionary

DARWINISM, noun. Various concepts of development or evolution popularised by Charles Darwin's publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859.
DARWINISM, noun. The principles of natural selection set out in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859), more strictly defined by August Weismann and developed by other authors into a central part of the modern evolutionary synthesis.

Dictionary definition

DARWINISM, noun. A theory of organic evolution claiming that new species arise and are perpetuated by natural selection.

Wise words

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Nathaniel Hawthorne