Synonyms:
Darwinism
Meaning: a theory of organic evolution claiming that new species arise and are perpetuated by natural selection
Usage examples
But the idea was as new to him and the scientists of his court as Darwinism was to the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries.
Darwinism, which at first was declared by the clergy to be brutal, degrading, atheistic, and anti-Christian, is now included as part of the Bible teaching.