(n.) one who holds the doctrine of evolution, either in biology or in metaphysics.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, the evolutionists generally distinguish two situations (Dawkins, 1980; Maynard Smith, 1982): one in which fitness is independent of the frequency of the phenotypes present in the population (frequency-independent selection), and one in which it does depend on this frequency (frequency-dependent selection).
(2) The cross-species gene transfer model could help explain many observations which have puzzled evolutionists, such as rapid bursts in evolution and the widespread occurrence of parallelism in the fossil record.
(3) The nature of the last universal ancestor to all extent cellular organisms and the rooting of the universal tree of life are fundamental questions which can now be addressed by molecular evolutionists.
(4) The conquest of natural history by physics, in one and the same movement, leads to a subversion of physical geology by history, and prevents biology from becoming evolutionistic in the sense in which the nineteenth century understands this term.
(5) The main goal of the protein evolutionist is the reconstruction of past events leading to the structures of contemporary proteins.
(6) These new fossils, dates, analyses, and interpretations lead to confirmation and refinement of the mosaic scheme of human evolution as proposed by early evolutionists such as Lamarck, Haeckel, and Darwin.
(7) If he may be labeled an evolutionist, the specificity of his views must be taken into account.
(8) Later he came under the direct influence of the English evolutionists, and this was crucial for the conception of Ancient Society.
(9) Our results strongly support the Evolutionists' point of view.
(10) The main "evolutionist" issue that concerned him was that of the unity or diversity of the human species.
(11) The history of both problems, that were first given consideration by N.W.Timofeeff-Ressovsky, a known Russian radiobiologist and evolutionist, has been followed up.
(12) Indeed, evolutionists don't agree on how divergently our own biosphere could have developed if such contingencies as ice ages and meteorite impacts had happened differently.
(13) And many will blame the evolutionists for bringing the matter up in the first place.
(14) The authors think that the conventional conception, in which ontogenetic development is comparable with phylogenetic development, needs to be reconsidered: the cervical curvature is a prime curvature setting the evolutionist question about the origins of the rachidian curvatures.
(15) Unfortunately, evolutionists frequently regard them as competing theories that invoke different mechanisms, such that if one is "right" the others must be "wrong".
(16) The problem of multiple frameworks is aggravated by the fact that major terms, such as "units of selection", are defined differently within each framework, yet many evolutionists who use one framework to argue against another assume shared meanings.
(17) Darwin's proposal of two sources of instinct--natural selection and inherited habit--fostered among late nineteenth century evolutionists a variety of conflicting notions concerning the mechanisms of evolution.
Proponent
Definition:
(a.) Making proposals; proposing.
(n.) One who makes a proposal, or lays down a proposition.
(n.) The propounder of a thing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although it appears to come within the confines of privacy, assisted suicide constitutes a more radical change in the law than its proponents suggest.
(2) Both sides agree that antigenic diversity is advantageous although selectionists see benefits in individual mutations whereas the proponents of random genetic drift see the advantage in the parasite's capacity to tolerate diversity per se.
(3) It is said that the science around climate change is not as certain as its proponents allege.
(4) He is also a vocal proponent of the benefit cap , finding it disgusting that some families can claim more in benefits than the average person earns, even while he finds it intolerable that he can only claim in accommodation expenses £2,000 more than the cap .
(5) He is a “caricature machine politician” , Goldsmith has claimed, but also the proponent of “divisive and radical politics” .
(6) Hungary, now one of Europe’s keenest proponents of border protection, was less than a century ago part of a polyglot, multinational commonwealth, the Austro-Hungarian empire.
(7) George Osborne, the chancellor, whose Tatton constituency lies on the expected route, is a crucial proponent in unlocking the £33bn spend.
(8) Queen Victoria’s physician was a great proponent of the value of tincture of cannabis and the monarch is reputed to have used it to counteract the pain of menstrual periods and childbirth.
(9) Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was the major proponent of Greater Europe, a concept that also had European roots in Gaullism and other initiatives.
(10) Debate among proponents of these various proposals might be advanced if a common language were adopted with regard to certain key terms instead of the various meanings currently assigned to these terms.
(11) Psychologist Susan Blackmore is best known as the proponent of memes, but early in her career she was a parapsychologist.
(12) Proponents argue that freestanding emergency centers reduce costs by providing care in a more efficient manner and cause other health care providers such as hospital emergency rooms to reduce costs and improve service.
(13) Strong proponents exist for the combination chemoradiation, whereas others favor radical radiation therapy.
(14) Proponents of these schemes argue that it helps to rescue people from fuel poverty.
(15) But proponents argue a nuclear weapons ban will create a moral case – in the vein of the cluster and land mine conventions – for nuclear weapons states to disarm, and establish a new international norm prohibiting nuclear weapons’ development, possession, and use.
(16) The basic income has its proponents on the right as well as the left, with the former seeing it as a cut-price form of welfare.
(17) It was, I recall, an anarchic traffic jam of ex-squatters, ravers, and proponents of free love that chuntered slowly and messily through the byways and sometimes the highways of Thatcher’s Britain.
(18) According to some proponents and critics of research using animals, the greatest hope for improved conditions for laboratory animals is to be found in the system of self-regulation called for by recent legislation and the NIH's revised policy.
(19) Lord Mandelson, a former Labour minister and a keen proponent of electoral reform, said AV supporters had paid a "big price" for staging the national poll on the same day as the first elections since the general election.
(20) He said the shift to the neutral stance would allow nurses to talk to patients about it if they were questioned, but added: "That must not be confused with us being proponents of assisted suicide."