selectionistn.adj.
/sɪˈlɛkʃənɪst/ A. n.
(a) One who believes in or supports the theory of natural selection. †(b) One who believes that evolution proceeds primarily by natural selection for small differences; opposed to mutationist n. Obsolete. (c) One who holds a selectionist view of genetic variation (cf. sense B. b below).
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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
1892 Nation 6 Oct. 266/3 Extreme selectionists like Wallace and Weismann.
1899 J. L. Tayler in Nat. Sci. Sept. 190 A pure or nearly pure selectionist hypothesis.
1909 W. Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity (new ed.) i. 3 If species had really arisen by the natural selection for impalpable differences,..the limits between species should be..indefinite... The selectionists believe..that it represents the facts of nature.
1911 A. D. Darbishire Breeding & Mendelian Discov. 4 The point at issue between the Selectionist..and the Mutationist.
1959 Encounter Sept. 62/2 The selectionist must assume..that consciousness is useful.
1979 Sci. Amer. Nov. 96/3 Selectionists maintain that for a mutant allele to spread through a species it must have some selective advantage.
B. adj.
(a) Pertaining to or connected with the theory of natural selection. (b) Of or pertaining to the belief that the majority of observed genetic variation is maintained by natural selection rather than by random effects.
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the world > life > biology > theories > [adjective] > of genetics or evolution
Lamarckian1846
Darwinian1859
Darwinite1860
polygenistic1860
vestigian1860
Darwinistic1863
monogenistic1865
un-Darwinian1869
pre-Darwinian1870
Darwinic1871
hereditarian1873
monogenetic1873
pangenetic1875
phylogenic1875
evolutionistic1876
Darwinical1881
neo-Lamarckian1884
Darwinizing1886
neo-Darwinian1888
unigenist1896
Haeckelian1897
pangenic1900
Mendelian1902
monogenic1902
pre-Mendelian1902
Weismannian1903
autonomistic1904
adaptionist1915
adaptationist1931
gradualist1931
selectionist1944
Morganist1949
saltationist1954
punctuational1976
punctuationalist1978
punctuationist1979
1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. vi. 69 By Darwinism..was meant the selectionist theory of the method of evolution.
1971 Nature 13 Aug. 487/1 They maintain that a selectionist hypothesis would predict radical changes to be favoured over conservative changes.
1974 Nature 1 Nov. 62/2 A selectionist interpretation of the more rapid rate of molecular evolution in a living fossil is possible.
1978 Sci. Amer. Sept. 45/1 Selectionist evolution..is neither a chance phenomenon nor a deterministic phenomenon but a two-step tandem process combining the advantages of both.
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