DARWINISM

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Meaning:

A theory of organic evolution claiming that new species arise and are perpetuated by natural selection

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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Darwinism" is a kind of...):

evolutionism; theory of evolution; theory of organic evolution ((biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Darwinism"):

neo-Darwinism (a modern Darwinian theory that explains new species in terms of genetic mutations)

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