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darwinism

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Noun — Charles Darwin's theory that living things evolve through natural selection, or a belief in this idea.

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From Darwin + -ism (suffix forming names of schools of thought, systems, or theories), from the surname of the English natural philosopher, physician, and poet Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), and his grandson the biologist, geologist, and naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). The word was apparently first applied in noun...

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