neo-Darwinianadj.n.

1888 G. J. Romanes in Nature 30 Aug. 413 The school of Weismann may properly be called Neo-Darwinian: pure Darwinian it certainly is not.

1927 Dict. National Biogr. 1912–21 548/1 He came to reject the whole of the Lamarckian element in Darwin's views, and..became one of the apostles of the neo-Darwinian movement.

1952 E. O. Dodson Textbk. Evol. xvi. 314 Subspeciation is the ordinary prerequisite to speciation in the neo-Darwinian scheme.

1980 Dædalus Spring 41 The basic Neo-Darwinian buttress for the adaptionist program is the nature of genetic variability.

2001 N.Y. Times 10 Feb. b7/4 The attempt must be made to bring together neo-Darwinian evolutionary biology and history to form a new way of understanding the human experience: biohistory.

1892 Amer. Naturalist 26 1011 As soon as a somatogenic variation is inherited it is immediately relegated to the list of blastogenic variations by the NeoDarwinians.

1895 G. J. Romanes Darwin & After II. iii. 10 The Neo-Darwinians strain the teachings of Darwin.

1929 Sci. Monthly 29 339/1 Rafinesque thus not only anticipated Darwin, but was far in advance of even the most modern of the Neo-Darwinians.

1977 Bull. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. Oct. 15 After the elaboration of Mendelian genetics by the Neo-Darwinians, the eugenics movement proposed to hasten the evolutionary process in its progress toward human perfection.

1998 S. C. Morris Crucible of Creation i. 10 If neo-Darwinians turned their collective back on a much-vaunted plurality of alternative evolutionary mechanisms, were they ultimately so unwise?