单词	adaptationism
释义	adaptationism /adəpˈteɪʃ(ə)nɪz(ə)m / noun [mass noun] Biology The axiom or assumption that each feature of an organism is the result of evolutionary adaptation for a particular function.This joint consideration of Darwinian adaptationism and ecology has, in fact, produced the discipline of behavioral ecology.... It is of course a short step from these premises to the view that adaptation is a universal moulder of forms and behaviour, and adaptationism a universal acid for dissolving away scientific problems. That's the continental tradition as much as adaptationism is the English tradition. Derivatives adaptationist noun & adjective ... The problem with existing adaptationist hypotheses of human reproductive behavior is twofold. This is an adaptationist account of evolution, and one that most evolutionists would probably accept as uncontroversial. Selectionist or adaptationist thinking was proposed by two Englishmen, Darwin and Wallace, and the first converts were also therefore British.
随便看	moronism moror morose morosely moroseness morosity morosoph morowski moroxite Morpeth morph -morph morphallactic morphallaxis morphea Morphean morphematic morpheme morpheme alternant morphemic morphemically morphemicization morphemics morphetic Morpheus

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