evolutionist

The left and right, evolutionists, physicists, and most revolutionaries, all accept—at least on a historical scale—the nineteenth-century view of a unilinear and uniform "flow" of time.

The evolutionist studied the fossil record to understand the history of life on Earth.

As an evolutionist, she believes in the theory of natural selection.

The evolutionist presented a paper on the evolution of birds at the conference.

Many evolutionists study the genetic similarities between different species.

The evolutionist argued that species adapt to their environments over time.

Evolutionists believe that all life forms have a common ancestor.

The evolutionist's research focused on the evolution of primates.

Some evolutionists study the evolution of behavior in different species.

The evolutionist's work challenges traditional views on the origins of life.

Evolutionists use a variety of scientific methods to study the process of evolution.

The first paragraph focuses on his background and how he came to be the evolutionist that he was.

So, Williams basically defends Vernant and Vidal-Naquet's idea of tragic consciousness, but removes from it any evolutionist or progressivist thesis.

BRIAN HARE: But thinking about evolution  like a Darwinian evolutionist does, that was not popular in Stalin's Russia.

But such a view, though it might satisfy Spencer and those whom we may call Hegelian evolutionists, could not be accepted as adequate by the more whole-hearted votaries of change.

We will begin with the problem of the physical conceptions of space and time and matter, which, as we have seen, are challenged by the contentions of the evolutionists.

It is admitted by most evolutionists that mammals are descended from a marsupial form; and if so, the mammary glands will have been at first developed within the marsupial sack.

To evolutionists may be left the processes of evolution; to historians the single interest is the law of reaction between force and force — between mind and nature — the law of progress.

Of course both priests and evolutionists bitterly denied this heresy, but what they affirmed or denied in 1860 had very little importance indeed for 1960. Anarchy lost no ground meanwhile. The problem became only the more fascinating.

History offered a feeble and delusive smile at the sound of the word; evolutionists and ethnologists disputed its very existence; no one knew what to make of it; yet, without the clue, history was a nursery tale.