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| Main Entry: |
natural selection
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evolutionary theory |
| Synonyms: | Darwinian theory, Darwinism, adaptation, artificial selection, biological evolution, evolution, evolutionism, law of the jungle, natural law, phylogeny, social Darwinism, social evolution, survival of the fittest, theory of evolution |
| Main Entry: | survival of the fittest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theory of evolution |
| Synonyms: | Darwinianism, Darwinism, Neo-Darwinism, adaptation, evolution, evolutionism, law of the jungle, natural law, natural selection, organic evolution, phylogeny, punctuated equilibrium, social Darwinism, social evolution |
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Example Sentences
- Secondly, you're always complaining about cladistics as if all of our hypotheses about archosaur phylogeny are dependent on it.
- Ontogeny does not, actually, recapitulate phylogeny.
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