What's the difference between darwinian and evolutionism?

Darwinian


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements.
  • (n.) An advocate of Darwinism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Brain models, to be tenable, must pass an extended Turing test in which the capacity to self organize through the Darwinian mechanism of variation and selection is a key element.
  • (2) These are the primary Darwinian themes of the second half of the 20th century, and can be understood only in the context of Bill's contributions.
  • (3) This suggestion is the outcome of analyzing the immune system by the principle of Darwinian selection--among lymphocyte populations differing in their relative growth capacities under particular environmental conditions.
  • (4) The small energy difference between these enantiomeric pairs, with Darwinian reaction kinetics in a flow reactor, account for the choice of biomolecular handedness made when life began.
  • (5) We earlier suggested that type A human influenza virus genes undergo positive Darwinian selection through immune surveillance.
  • (6) In contrast to the Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection, the neutral theory emphasizes the great importance of random genetic drift (due to finite population size) and mutation pressure as the main causes of molecular evolution.
  • (7) We show that the diversity-selection duality of Darwinian evolution is achieved at this state if we start from four different monomers capable of forming two complementary pairs.
  • (8) With respect to amino acid composition, this coupling ameliorates the current controversy over Darwinian vs. non-Darwinian evolution, selectionist vs. neutralist, in favor of neither: Within the context of the quantitative data, the evolution of real proteins is seen as a compromise between the two viewpoints, both important.
  • (9) The events in Pavlov's laboratory lead toward the postulation of a new paradigm that rejected the Cartesians conceptualization of the reflex as a mechanistic response to stimuli by replacing it with the Darwinian notion of the organism's adaptation to the environmental conditions.
  • (10) Some people rigorously work through almost a Darwinian attempt to world-create in fantasy.
  • (11) It is hypothesized that it is this process that gave rise to the chemical substrate upon which Darwinian selective forces have acted ever since.
  • (12) The process of Darwinian selection in the self-replication of single-stranded RNA by Q beta replicase was investigated by analytical and computer-simulation methods.
  • (13) 1.43pm BST Alistair Smith, acting editor of the stage.co.uk website, writes that on the whole there was no big change in what was a brutal, Darwinian process These decisions will have implications across the arts world, as it is trimmed into a new shape, but we should not forget it was also have huge ramifications for individuals, as jobs are made and lost and lives are changed.
  • (14) The remarkable specificity is the result of an antigen-driven Darwinian selection of proliferating clones, operating on further diversity that is generated by a high rate of point mutations in specific genes.
  • (15) The kids are instinctively aware that this whole process is Darwinian - it is a show - and it is survival of the cutest.
  • (16) So not surprisingly nearly all neo-Darwinians insist that the outcomes – and that includes you – are complete flukes of circumstance.
  • (17) The unified theory of evolution is an expansion of Darwinian theory that asserts that evolution is driven by entropic accumulation of genetic information that is constrained and organized primarily by the genealogical effects of phylogenetic history and developmental integration, and secondarily by ecological effects, or natural selection in its classical mode.
  • (18) Analysis of DNA sequences supports the hypothesis that in Plasmodium falciparum, positive Darwinian selection favors diversity in the T-cell epitopes (peptides presented to T cells by host MHC molecules) of the CS protein.
  • (19) The resulting equations allow a more precise accounting for the effects of Darwinian natural selection in molecular evolution than does the idealized but biologically less accurate assumption that each of the four nucleotides is equally likely to mutate to and be fixed as one of the other three.
  • (20) Mutations that cause sterility or early embryonic loss are detrimental in the Darwinian sense but have little impact on society.

Evolutionism


Definition:

  • (n.) The theory of, or belief in, evolution. See Evolution, 6 and 7.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the author's opinion, the main principles were that of evolutionism and of unity (social and biological, continuous and interrupted, general and individual) in the epidemic process.
  • (2) To render their views intelligible, the historical origin of concepts such as evolutionism, Jacksonian, inhibition, psychological automatism, and synchrony and diachrony is briefly mentioned.
  • (3) There is a longstanding and ongoing controversy about whether Buffon is to be regarded as a forerunner of evolutionism in the eighteenth century, or even as one of the founders of transformistic biology.
  • (4) The products weighed 2,696 g; Apgar of 7.1 and 8.4 at fetal one and five minutes respectively, in average; there was one fetal death (2.4%), and one mortinate (2.4%); morbidity was 12%, and 85% of the products evolutionated satisfactorily.
  • (5) Above all, many medical historians even today fall victim to an unjustified cultural evolutionism, according to which ethnomedical research work in the field of "primitive medicine" may be employed to reconstruct a fictive paleopathology.
  • (6) The first deals with the controversy between "Creationism" on the one hand and "Evolutionism" on the other.

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