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Darwinism

Darwinism is a term used to describe a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and his contemporaries. The theory states that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.

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related to Further reading · 35
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related to Contemporary usage · 29
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related to Huxley · 15
Darwinism → April, Charles Darwin's, Darwin's, Erasmus Darwin, Having, How, Huxley, Nicolaus Copernicus, On, Origin, Species, The Westminster Review, Thomas Henry Huxley, While, Whitworth
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and Carl Safina that it is an inappropriate term for modern evolutionary theoryinstance ofit has increasingly been argued by science writers0.80text
scientific materialism.Though the term usually refers strictly to biological evolutioninstance ofas a pejorative term in reference to beliefs0.80text
creationists have appropriated it to refer to the origin of life or to cosmic evolutioninstance ofas a pejorative term in reference to beliefs0.80text
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