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- noun Plural form of
adaptationist .
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Examples
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My point about "giving a point to ID" or "taking one from evolution" was in reference to the fact that adaptationists have predicted a lot of function a long time before ID had its genesis.
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I can't say why Dawkins says what he says, but adaptationists are able to predict function given the observed nature of selection.
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We can disregard the fact that many adaptationists have predicted "not really junk" because Dawkins alone didn't jump on that bandwagon?
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We can disregard the fact that many adaptationists have predicted "not really junk" because Dawkins alone didn't jump on that bandwagon?
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Not all selectionists and adaptationists thought searching for function was a helpful avenue of research.
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Are you proposing that since I don't know the argument of the Public Understander of Science, that I should give adaptationists a point?
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The drive to satisfy that yearning, according to both adaptationists and byproduct theorists, might be an inevitable and eternal part of what Atran calls the tragedy of human cognition.
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The drive to satisfy that yearning, according to both adaptationists and byproduct theorists, might be an inevitable and eternal part of what Atran calls the tragedy of human cognition.
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Strict adaptationists have predicted a whole lot of function long before ID was around.
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Not all selectionists and adaptationists thought searching for function was a helpful avenue of research.
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