单词 | ante-darwinian |
释义 | > as lemmasante-Darwinian ante-Darwinian n. and adj. Brit. , U.S. ΚΠ 1872 Chicago Schoolmaster Feb. 32 To change the caste in which one was born..was as impossible, as to an ante-Darwinian, it would seem for a reptile to become a lion or an elephant. 1873 Nation 16 Oct. 259/2 Mr. Bentham..had not..touched upon questions of origination in the ante-Darwinian era. 1910 P. E. Moore Shelburne Ess. 7th ser. 247 Lamarck, the greatest of the scientific ante-Darwinians. 1928 E. D. Martin in C. A. Beard Whither Mankind xv. 365 Popular religious beliefs are still parochial, pre-Newtonian, ante-Darwinian. 2012 M. Wainwright Toward Sociobiological Hermeneutic i. 3 With a provenance that traces back to ancient Greek philosophy, pangenesis is ante-Darwinian. < as lemmas |
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