evolutionism
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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
And it is also the only evolutionism that seems to us to account for the building up of identical complex organs on independent lines of development.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
The context shows that "uniformitarianism" here means that doctrine, as limited in application by Hutton and Lyell, and that what I mean by "evolutionism" is consistent and thoroughgoing uniformitarianism.
From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas H. Huxley
The air was thick with whiffs and foretastes of evolutionism, and the two budding naturalists of the Amazons expedition had inhaled them eagerly with every breath.
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
And herein consisted his great advance upon the earlier evolutionism of Lamarck, Goethe, and Erasmus Darwin.
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
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