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 Mitchell, Arthur

Why was it that the 'Origin of Species' possessed this extraordinary vitalising and kinetic power, this germinal energy, this contagious force, beyond all other forms of evolutionism previously promulgated?

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

Darwin's Origin of Species appeared in 1859, and marked another step in Spencer's evolutionism.

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)

As a matter of taste, Lyell did not relish the application of evolutionism to his own species.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant