Darwinism
See also: darwinism
English
Etymology
From Darwin + -ism, coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1860.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɑːwɪnɪzəm/
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Noun
Darwinism (countable and uncountable, plural Darwinisms)
- Various concepts of development or evolution popularised by Charles Darwin's publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859.
- 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.
Synonyms
- Darwinianism
Derived terms
- social Darwinism
Related terms
- Darwinian
- Darwinist
- Darwinistic
- Darwinistically
Translations
principles of natural selection
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See also
- natural selection
- Nobel Prize
- survival of the fittest