Darwinistn.adj.

1864 J. Hunt tr. C. Vogt Lect. on Man xvi. 464 No Darwinist [Ger. Darwinist], if we must call them so, has either raised that question or drawn the above inference.

1875 Scribners Monthly July 350/1 It [sc. natural selection] accounts, according to the Darwinist, not only for the production of different forms of one type, but for the differentiation of the most complex organizations from the simplest.

1900 Amer. Naturalist 34 760 This gives..the explanations of the origin of different types of coloration as advocated by such Darwinists as Poulton, by such Lamarckians as Cunningham, and by those who, like Wallace occupy intermediate grounds.

1958 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 9 111 The leading German Darwinist, Ernst Haeckel, defended the theory of evolution against Virchow's charge.

1975 W. Feinberg Reason & Rhetoric i. 42 To a strict Darwinist, man could no longer accurately perceive himself as an advance over other species except by some rather mundane standards.

2005 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Nov. 76/1 Just as Charles Darwin studied animals to discover the pattern behind their development, Literary Darwinists read books in search of innate patterns of human behavior.

1884 Science 28 Mar. 388/2 Jaeger is quoted by Semper as saying that there has been enough Darwinist philosophizing and that it is now time to subject the numerous hypotheses to the test of investigation.

1925 Denton (Texas) Record-Chron. 16 June 5/1 Judge Onion, who is evidently an anti-evolutionist himself, fined the belligerent Darwinist family $5 each for disturbing the peace.

1949 Soviet Stud. 1 114 While defending the Darwinist concept of selection by intra-species struggle for the animal and plant world, they dissociated themselves from ‘social Darwinism’.

1995 J. Shreeve Neandertal Enigma (1996) ii. 50 Brace's own thinking, like that of many American physical anthropologists, had been deeply influenced by the ‘New Synthesis’ of Darwinist principles with modern population genetics.

2002 U.S. News & World Rep. 21 Jan. 24/3 The Darwinist process would begin with software randomly generating a million sets of rules for buying and selling stocks.