(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.
Revolutionist
Definition:
(n.) One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution.
Example Sentences:
(1) As manifestoists and strategists, artists and revolutionists, such men were in many ways mini-Marinettis.
(2) The revolutionists say they sparked it all but refused to play electoral politics and were betrayed by the liberals and squeezed out of the equation by the army and the Brotherhood.
(3) The revolutionists busied themselves with ideas about borderless futures and public ownership and crowd-sourced constitutions.