Transformism

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  • n. the doctrine that living organisms have evolved from previously existing forms of living matter
  • n. any particular version of the doctrine of transformism
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; -- opposed to abiogenesis.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In Italian history, the parliamentary situation and the financial and administrative policies and methods which marked the premiership of Agostino Depretis (1876–86). See the extract.
  • n. In biology, the fact or the doctrine of such modification of specific characters in any organism as suffices to change one species into a different species, whether immediately or in the course of time; transmutation of species (see transmutation, 1).
    • Word Usage
    "Darwin ... from the idea of transformism (?) to the idea of evolution."
    Antonym
    abiogenesis   
     
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