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bathmic, a.|ˈbæθmɪk|
[f. Gr. βαθµός: see bathmism + -ic.]
Of or pertaining to bathmism; exhibiting or caused by bathmism as a form of evolution.
1872in Cope Origin of Fittest (1887) i. 26 It is a nice point of phylogeny (or the science of genealogy) to ascertain whether adaptive or strictly ‘bathmic’ (or embryonic grade) characters came first in time in a given group. 1879Ibid. (1887) vi. 229, I compared the transmission of bathmic force to that of the phenomenon of combustion. 1905G. A. Reid Princ. Heredity i. 12 The Bathmic [doctrine of racial change], which attributes it to an ‘inherent adaptive growth-force’. |