单词 | bathmic |
释义 | bathmicadj. Of or pertaining to bathmism; exhibiting or caused by bathmism as a form of evolution. ΚΠ 1872 E. D. Cope Origin Fittest (1887) i. 26 It is a nice point of phylogeny (or the science of genealogy) to ascertain whether adaptive or strictly ‘bathmic’ (or embryonic grade) characters came first in time in a given group. 1879 E. D. Cope Origin Fittest (1887) vi. 229 I compared the transmission of bathmic force to that of the phenomenon of combustion. 1905 G. A. Reid Princ. Heredity i. 12 The Bathmic [doctrine of racial change], which attributes it to an ‘inherent adaptive growth-force’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < |
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