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DARWINISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A theory of organic evolution claiming that new species arise and are perpetuated by natural selection
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Darwinism" is a kind of...):
evolutionism; theory of evolution; theory of organic evolution ((biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Darwinism"):
neo-Darwinism (a modern Darwinian theory that explains new species in terms of genetic mutations)
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