单词 | mutationist |
释义 | mutationistn.adj. Biology. Now historical. An advocate of mutation theory; a person who believes that evolution is caused primarily by mutation. Also attributive or as adj. Cf. selectionist n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > theories > person holding theory > [noun] > of genetics or evolution transmutationist1844 progressionist1845 developist1846 developmentist1847 monogenist1857 polygenist1857 Darwinian1860 Darwinite1860 developmentarian1860 permutationist1860 developmentalist1862 monogenesist1862 polygenesist1862 Darwinist1864 evolutionist1866 natural selectionist1869 homogenist1874 derivationist1875 transformista1879 hereditarian1881 hereditist1885 derivatist1887 preformationist1888 fortuitist1890 Lamarckite1890 neo-Lamarckian1890 neo-Darwinist1891 vestigian1891 neo-Darwinian1892 selectionist1892 preformist1895 recapitulationist1897 transmissionist1899 Mendelian1903 mutationist1903 Weismannian1903 adaptationist1904 Mendelist1906 Lysenkoist1949 Morganist1950 Lamarckian1953 gradualist1970 macromutationist1975 punctuationalist1978 saltationist1978 punctuationist1980 1903 Science 20 Mar. 445 The mutationist can say that any form that is inherited is by that fact a mutation. 1904 Science 10 June 881/2 It might be inferred that Lamarckians and Darwinians are..regarded as believers in adaptiveness as a factor in evolution, and mutationists are necessarily supposed to hold the opposite view. 1911 A. D. Darbishire Breeding & Mendelian Discov. 4 The point at issue between the Selectionist..and the Mutationist. 1947 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 8 333 Schopenhauer..insisted upon..the temporal occurrence of absolute novelties, the uniqueness of laws of their behavior, and a peculiar kind of mutationist evolutionism. 1973 B. J. Williams Evol. & Human Origins i. 18/2 Some investigators were ‘mutationists’ and considered mutations to be major events creating, in one step, species differences. 1983 J. R. G. Turner in M. Grene Dimensions of Darwinism vi. 146 Poulton, the arch-Darwinist, had originally thrown down mimicry as a challenge to the mutationists. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1903 |
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