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Darwinian

[dahr-win-ee-uhn]

adjective

  1. (sometimes lowercase)pertaining to Charles Darwin or his doctrines.



noun

  1. a follower of Charles Darwin; a person who accepts or advocates Darwinism.

Darwinian

/ ɑːˈɪɪə /

adjective

  1. of or relating to Charles Darwin or his theory of evolution by natural selection

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a person who accepts, supports, or uses this theory

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • anti-Darwinian noun
  • non-Darwinian adjective
  • post-Darwinian adjective
  • pre-Darwinian adjective
  • pro-Darwinian adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Darwinian1

First recorded in 1855–60; Darwin + -ian
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Example Sentences

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“Survivor” bowed for the first time before 9/11 and established itself as a Darwinian experiment with the motto “Outwit, Outplay, Outlast.”

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The pain Deborah inflicts on Ava is at once very personal and notoriously endemic to the entertainment business, a Darwinian factory that demands round-the-clock creative labor.

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He has warned that European carmakers are in a "Darwinian" struggle with their Chinese rivals, something that is likely to have social consequences as they pare back costs in an effort to compete.

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That's because, simply put from a Darwinian perspective of how we have evolved, it's better to overcount potentially harmful agents and predators than to underestimate them.

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This year, researchers took a second look at Darwinian selection and proposed a bold new idea about how *gestures around* all this evolves, calling it the “law of increasing functional information.”

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