vestigianadj.n.
rare.
A. adj.
Of or pertaining to, or designating, the theory of evolution propounded by R. Chambers in his Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844).
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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
1860 C. Darwin in F. Darwin Life & Lett. C. Darwin (1887) II. 295 The case would be a decided difficulty on the Lamarckian or Vestigian doctrine of necessary progression.
B. n.
One who agrees with or supports this work or theory.
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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
1891 Tablet 12 Sept. 414 Men who had never been known to read a scientific book in their lives, were found poring over it, and taking sides as Vestigians and anti-Vestigians.
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