One who believes in or advocates a theory of transmutation, esp. that of the transmutation of species in organic nature; a transformist. Also attrib…

Biology. A supporter or adherent of the theory that the history of life shows an inherent progression from simpler to more complex forms, either as a…

A person who interprets something in terms of its development or evolution; spec. (a) a person who views Catholic doctrine as being consistent…

An adherent of developmentalism (see developmentalism, n. 1), a developmentalist; spec. †an evolutionist (evolutionist, n. 2) (obsolete). Now histo…

Ethnology. A person who believes or maintains the hypothesis of human monogenesis. Now historical.

A person who believes in or advocates a polygenetic origin of humankind.

A follower of Charles Darwin; a person who accepts the Darwinian theory.

A follower of Charles Darwin; = Darwinist, n.

= evolutionist, n. 2. Cf. developmentalist, n. 1. Obsolete.

A person who holds or advocates a theory of permutation. Obsolete.

An adherent of developmentalism (developmentalism, n. 1); spec. †an evolutionist (now rare).

= monogenist, n. 1.

= polygenist, n.

A follower of Charles Darwin; a person who accepts or promotes Darwinism (in scientific and extended use); = Darwinian, n. 2.

A person who holds a theory or doctrine of evolution, or interprets a field of study in evolutionary terms; an evolutionary biologist; (in wider…

A supporter or advocate of the theory of natural selection. Also in extended use.

One who maintains the theory of a common descent.

Biology. One who holds the theory of derivation or evolution of organic types.

An adherent of transformism. Also attributive or as adj.

An advocate of hereditarian theory or belief.

In the biological and social sciences: an advocate of the theory that characteristics are (primarily) determined by heredity; = hereditarian, n.

= derivationist, n. 1. Also attributive or as adj.

A person who advocates or believes in the theory of preformation (preformation, n. 2).

one who believes in fortuitism.

= B.

A proponent or advocate of neo-Lamarckism.

A proponent or advocate of neo-Darwinism.

One who agrees with or supports this work or theory.

= neo-Darwinist, n.

(a) One who believes in or supports the theory of natural selection. †(b) One who believes that evolution proceeds primarily by natural selection…

= preformationist, n.

An adherent of the theory of recapitulation (recapitulation, n.1 1c). Now historical.

one who holds the theory of the hereditary transmission of acquired characters; also attributive.

A person who accepts or advocates Mendelism.

An advocate of mutation theory; a person who believes that evolution is caused primarily by mutation. Also attributive or as adj. Cf. selectionist, n.

One who accepts the theory of Weismannism.

Biology. A person who stresses the role of adaptation in evolution; spec. an advocate of adaptationism (adaptationism, n. 2).

= Mendelian, n.

one who believes in or advocates the views of Lysenko; also as adj.

A supporter or advocate of Morganism.

One who holds Lamarckian views.

Biology. One who views evolution as a process of continuous gradual change. Cf. punctuationalist n. at punctuational, adj. derivatives.

An exponent or adherent of macromutationism.

= punctuationist, n. 2.

One who supports or advocates saltationism.

Chiefly Biology. A person who believes in or advocates the theory of punctuationism.