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The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.
Helen Fisher

Meaning of "Darwinian" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DARWINIAN

Darwinian  [dɑːˈwɪnɪən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DARWINIAN

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Darwinian can act as a noun and an adjective.
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WHAT DOES DARWINIAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Darwinian

Darwinism

Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by Charles Darwin and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce. Also called Darwinian theory. It originally included the broad concepts of transmutation of species or of evolution which gained general scientific acceptance when Charles Robert Darwin published On the Origin of Species, including concepts which predated Darwin's theories, but subsequently referred to specific concepts of natural selection, the Weismann barrier or in genetics the central dogma of molecular biology. Though it usually refers strictly to biological evolution, the term has been used by creationists to refer to the origin of life, and has even been applied to concepts of cosmic evolution, both of which have no connection to Darwin's work. It is therefore considered the belief and acceptance of Darwin's, and his predecessors, work in place of other theories including divine design and extraterrestrial origins.

Definition of Darwinian in the English dictionary

The definition of Darwinian in the dictionary is of or relating to Charles Darwin or his theory of evolution by natural selection. Other definition of Darwinian is a person who accepts, supports, or uses this theory.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DARWINIAN


Albanian
ælˈbeɪnɪən
Argentinean
ˌɑːdʒənˈtɪnɪən
Argentinian
ˌɑːdʒənˈtɪnɪən
Carthaginian
ˌkɑːθəˈdʒɪnɪən
Guinean
ˈɡɪnɪən
Iranian
ɪˈreɪnɪən
Jordanian
dʒɔːˈdeɪnɪən
Lithuanian
ˌlɪθjʊˈeɪnɪən
Mauritanian
ˌmɒrɪˈteɪnɪən
Mediterranean
ˌmɛdɪtəˈreɪnɪən
Palestinian
ˌpælɪˈstɪnɪən
Panamanian
ˌpænəˈmeɪnɪən
Papua-New-Guinean
ˈpæpjʊənjuːˌɡɪnɪən
Pomeranian
ˌpɒməˈreɪnɪən
Romanian
rəʊˈmeɪnɪən
Sardinian
sɑːˈdɪnɪən
subterranean
ˌsʌbtəˈreɪnɪən
Tasmanian
tæzˈmeɪnɪən
Ukrainian
juːˈkreɪnɪən
Virginian
vəˈdʒɪnɪən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DARWINIAN

Dartford
darting
dartingly
dartitis
dartle
Dartmoor
Dartmouth
dartre
dartrous
darts
Darwin
Darwin´s finches
Darwinian theory
Darwinism
Darwinist
Darwinistic
Darwinite

WORDS THAT END LIKE DARWINIAN

Abyssinian
Arminian
Augustinian
Carolinian
Einsteinian
Eleusinian
Frankensteinian
Geminian
Neo-Darwinian
Ninian
North Carolinian
Pandects of Justinian
peridinian
platyrrhinian
Plinian
Slovenian
Socinian
South Carolinian
viraginian
West Virginian
Wittgensteinian

Synonyms and antonyms of Darwinian in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Darwinian» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DARWINIAN

Find out the translation of Darwinian to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Darwinian from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Darwinian» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

达尔文
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

darwiniana
570 millions of speakers

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Darwinian
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

डार्विन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الدارويني
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

дарвиновская
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

darwiniana
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ডারউইনের
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

darwinien
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Darwinian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

darwinistischen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ダーウィンの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

다윈
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Darwinian
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

học thuyết Darwin
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

டார்வினின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डार्विनियन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Darwinci
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

darviniano
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

darwinowska
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дарвінівська
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

darwinian
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δαρβινική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Darwin
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

darwinistisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

darwinistisk
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Darwinian

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10 QUOTES WITH «DARWINIAN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Darwinian.
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Jim Cramer
I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works.
2
William A. Dembski
There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
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Daniel Dennett
I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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Daniel Dennett
If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.
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Umberto Eco
Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
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Helen Fisher
The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.
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Susan George
We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.
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Stephen Jay Gould
My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.
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Phillip E. Johnson
First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.
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Phillip E. Johnson
The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DARWINIAN»

Discover the use of Darwinian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Darwinian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
The answers are in this groundbreaking book by two founders of the emerging science of Darwinian medicine, who deftly synthesize the latest research on disorders ranging from allergies to Alzheimer's and from cancer to Huntington's chorea.
Randolph M. Nesse, George C. Williams, 2012
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Darwinian Heresies
The collection was intended to interest, to excite, to infuriate, and to stimulate further work.
Abigail Lustig, Robert J. Richards, Michael Ruse, 2004
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Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature
This book shows how Darwinian biology supports an Aristotelian view of ethics as rooted in human nature.
Larry Arnhart, 1998
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Darwinian Agriculture: How Understanding Evolution Can ...
Darwinian Agriculture reveals why it is sometimes better to slow or even reverse evolutionary trends when they are inconsistent with our present goals, and how we can glean new ideas from natural selection's marvelous innovations in wild ...
R. Ford Denison, 2012
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The Post-Darwinian Controversies: A Study of the Protestant ...
The middle section of the book distinguishes the 'Darwinism' of Darwin himself amid the main currents of post-Darwinian evolutionary thought, and is followed by chapters which examine the responses to Darwin of twenty-eight Christian ...
James R. Moore, 1981
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Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian ...
In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological ...
Thomas Nagel, 2012
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Origins of Genius : Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity: ...
Simonton substantiates his theory by examining and quoting from the work of such eminent figures as Henri Poincare, W. H. Auden, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Charles Darwin, Niels Bohr, and many others.
Davis Dean Keith Simonton Professor of Psychology University of California, 1999
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The Triumph of the Darwinian Method
A coherent treatment of the flow of ideas throughout Darwin's works, this volume presents a unified theoretical system that explains Darwin's investigations, evaluating the literature from a historical, scientific, and philosophical ...
Michael T. Ghiselin, 2003
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The Hygiene Hypothesis and Darwinian Medicine
Discusses the evidence for and against in the context of Darwinian medicine, which uses knowledge of evolution to cast light on human diseases. This book considers the broader implications of the hygiene hypothesis in areas of medicine.
Graham A.W. Rook, 2009
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Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, ...
DIVIn Becoming Undone, Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related concepts—life, politics, and art—by exploring the implications of Charles Darwin’s account of the evolution of species.
Elizabeth Grosz, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DARWINIAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Darwinian is used in the context of the following news items.
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An Indefatigable Collector's Visual History of the 19th Century
... 200 extraordinary natural-history specimens, scientific models and botanical drawings from the Darwinian age.Credit Rosamond Purcell. «New York Times, Jul 15»
2
Evolution: The Fossils Speak, but Hardly with One Voice
Darwinian evolution is, despite legislative protection, certainly one of the victims. ... Darwinian explanations for that are, of course, on offer. «Discovery Institute, Jul 15»
3
For half of Americans, ignorance is bliss
The southern “Bible Belt” rejects Darwinian explanations of mankind's creation and insists the notion that God created the human race in seven ... «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
4
Federer, Clarke show different ways to be a 'hard bastard'
The process is Darwinian and, for precisely this reason, compelling. This is how evolution happens, how we find meaning, and how we ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
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The Quakers Join the World's Longest Living Hatred
For the Darwinian era, with its natural selection and race breeding ~ the Jews are the toxic race that must be liquidated. For the post-Nazi era ... «Arutz Sheva, Jul 15»
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Mimicking Seahorse Tails Could Lead to Better Robots
Scientists can pay lip service to Darwinian evolution, but it isn't helping them understand nature. Image credit: Florin DUMITRESCU (Own work) ... «Discovery Institute, Jul 15»
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Ashes 2015: Hard men can still show they have a heart
The process is Darwinian and, for precisely this reason, compelling. This is how evolution happens, how we find meaning, and how we ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
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When Exile Ceased to Be an Option
At the end of it all however Rwandan exiles knew they were largely on their own; a Darwinian truth as old as human society itself. So when in ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
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Oh! America!
It rejects Darwinian explanations of mankind's creation and insists that the notion that God created the human race in seven days be taught in ... «Daily Times, Jul 15»
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Join John West, George Gilder in Las Vegas for a Discussion of …
Darwinian evolutionary thinking has served as such a rationale repeatedly over the course of the theory's relatively brief history. See here for a ... «Discovery Institute, Jul 15»

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