On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Darwinian. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as evolutionism or advocate and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Darwinian in a sentence
Darwinian meaning
- Senses relating to Charles and Erasmus Darwin.
- Of or pertaining to the scientific views advanced by the English biologist, geologist, and naturalist Charles Darwin, especially his theory that living organisms evolve through the natural selection of inherited variations that increase organisms' ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.
Synonyms of Darwinian
Using Darwinian
- The main meaning on this page is: Senses relating to Charles and Erasmus Darwin. | Of or pertaining to the scientific views advanced by the English biologist, geologist, and naturalist Charles Darwin, especially his theory that living organisms evolve through the natural selection of inherited variations that increase organisms' ability to compete, survive, and reproduce. | Senses relating to Charles and Erasmus Darwin.
- Useful related words include: theory of evolution, evolutionism, advocate, advocator.
- In the example corpus, darwinian often appears in combinations such as: darwinian evolution, the darwinian, of darwinian.
Context around Darwinian
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Darwinian
- In this selection, "darwinian" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, neo, hyper, true, evolution, theory and flavor stand out and add context to how "darwinian" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a hyper darwinian strategy to and altruism within darwinian theory is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "darwinian" sits close to words such as aaf, aalen and abrogated, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with darwinian
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
What’s more, this meta-evolution has a Darwinian flavor. (10 words)
Any population has radical elements - this is in fact for Darwinian order. (12 words)
An alternative way of putting it is using the Darwinian ESS simulation. (12 words)
It was — and remains — a hyper-Darwinian strategy to increase competition in a short amount of time with the hope that, amid the upheaval, the instigator will be able to rewrite the terms of the game. (36 words)
Hayek points out that much of science involves the explanation of complex multivariable and nonlinear phenomena, and the social science of economics and undesigned order compares favourably with such complex sciences as Darwinian biology. (34 words)
As the least specialized animal, human beings have maintained the closest connection to the archetypal form; citation contrary to the Darwinian conception of human evolution, all other animals devolve from this archetype. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
What’s more, this meta-evolution has a Darwinian flavor.
Any population has radical elements - this is in fact for Darwinian order.
Giovanni graduated from among the most prestigious theater schools in Italy, but the occupation, he advised Euronews, “is Darwinian: 10 years after graduating, just half of us work in the industry.
It was — and remains — a hyper-Darwinian strategy to increase competition in a short amount of time with the hope that, amid the upheaval, the instigator will be able to rewrite the terms of the game.
As evolutionary biologists, we are acquainted with the idea that Darwinian evolution is a slow and gradual process that takes place over very long timescales.
If so, they eventually developed the complexity of a cell and at that point the first steps in true Darwinian evolution would have begun.
And in “The Language Instinct,” I suggested that language was a Darwinian adaptation that allowed us to cooperate and communicate.
This compromise reflects the nature of the reception of Darwinian evolutionism in Islamic institutions of higher learning.
An alternative way of putting it is using the Darwinian ESS simulation.
And he compares free will to Darwinian evolution and natural selection: New ideas have a striking similarity to genetic mutations.
Apart from neo-Darwinian mechanisms such as mutation, translocation and duplication of genes, novelty may also arise by mutation-driven changes in gene regulation.
A recent review by Fernando, Szathmary and Husbands explains why Edelman's Neural Darwinism is not Darwinian because it does not contain units of evolution as defined by John Maynard Smith.
As a result, many non-specialists sometimes inferred from his early writings that Darwinian explanations had been proven to be unscientific (which Gould never tried to imply).
As the least specialized animal, human beings have maintained the closest connection to the archetypal form; citation contrary to the Darwinian conception of human evolution, all other animals devolve from this archetype.
A third effect was to serve notice that Darwinian ideas could not be easily dismissed: on the contrary, they would be vigorously defended against orthodox authority.
By creating that foundation, Morgan contributed to the neo-Darwinian synthesis, despite his criticism of Darwin at the beginning of his career.
Except for that slight revision, the basic Darwinian theory hasn't changed in the last 50 years.
Explaining this seeming contradiction, and accommodating cooperation, and even altruism, within Darwinian theory is a central issue in the theory of cooperation.
Hayek points out that much of science involves the explanation of complex multivariable and nonlinear phenomena, and the social science of economics and undesigned order compares favourably with such complex sciences as Darwinian biology.
He argued that on Darwinian grounds, you would expect cooperation and mutual aid to develop leading towards community, workers' control and so on.
Common combinations with darwinian
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- darwinian evolution 5×
- the darwinian 5×
- of darwinian 4×
- that darwinian 3×
- darwinian theory 2×