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- adjective Relating to
Darwinism , the theory of evolution by natural selection.
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Examples
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So there could be no question of Mississippi's legislators following "Darwinistic" practice and passing a law requiring compulsory sterilisation of "mental defectives", could there?
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So there could be no question of Mississippi's legislators following "Darwinistic" practice and passing a law requiring compulsory sterilisation of "mental defectives", could there?
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President Obama has been a terrible disappointment to all of us moderates who just want an enlightened foreign policy instead of the current Darwinistic one that Obama chose to follow.
Iranian leader: Obama administration 'wicked,' 'untrustworthy' 2010
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Science has refuted his Darwinistic ideas, and he still holds to them! how would you know if YOU were wrong?
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While not Darwinian in origin, the theory is at least Darwinistic, stressing the survival of the species as it adapts to its environment.
“The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction 2010
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"No man would ever admit to dressing to impress his peers, but the truth is that's what men do," says Langmead, who notes that recently, there's been an almost Darwinistic twist on looking good.
Menswear's Formal Acceptance Tina Gaudoin 2011
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I know, of course, why most women love a seven-inch heel and a pointy toe—the lengthening of the leg, the slimming of the silhouette, the Darwinistic "pertening" of the bottom and the semisexual arching of the back...
The Higher the Heel, the Harder the Fall Tina Gaudoin 2011
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In any case, Darwinistic evolution would be a most peculiar creative method for God to choose given the Darwinistic insistence that biological evolution was undirected.
Blast From the Past 2010
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Right-wingers were surely oblivious to the downright Darwinistic implications of the slogan.
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In a way, it's a Darwinistic solution to a problem that's bred out of too much noise.
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