natural selectionistn.
/ˌnatʃ(ə)rəl sᵻˈlɛkʃn̩ɪst/, /ˌnatʃ(ə)rəl sᵻˈlɛkʃnɪst/, U.S. /ˈˌnætʃər(ə)l səˈlɛkʃənəst/, /ˈˌnætʃr(ə)l səˈlɛkʃənəst/; see also natural adj. and adv. Biology.
A supporter or advocate of the theory of natural selection. Also in extended use.
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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
1869 Catholic World Sept. 746/2 He treats of the primeval man, and maintains man's origin in the creative act of God, against the developmentists and natural selectionists.
1895 Bot. Gaz. 20 220 The family [sc. Cactaceae] is one which the extreme natural selectionist will find it hard to deal with.
1913 G. B. Shaw Quintessence of Ibsenism p. xv Capitalism, built up by generations of Scotch Rationalists and English Utilitarians, Atheists, Agnostics and Natural-Selectionists..is proclaimed the bulwark of the Christian churches.
1992 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 52 965 Gibbard develops a natural-selectionist theory of representation that distinguishes bits of talk that represent naturally from bits that don't.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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