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Fixism

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transformismnoun(evolutionary theory) The doctrine that living organisms have evolved from previously existing forms of living matter.
mutationismnoun(biology) A theory emphasizing mutation as a creative principle and source of discontinuity in evolutionary change, particularly associated with the founders of modern genetics.
degenerationismnoun(biology, historical) A theory stating that human conditions such as disease and savagery represent a reversion to an earlier evolutionary stage.
monkeyismnounTomfoolery; silly or foolish behaviour.
transformationalismnoun(theology) A fusion of evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, and ecumenism that became prominent in the early 21st century; transformational Christianity.
conservationnounThe act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
nomogenesisnounA former theory of evolution, claiming that the variation of characters in species is confined within certain limits due to internal and external factors.
evolutionismnoun(uncountable) The belief in the universal presence of evolution.
neutralismnounThe state of being neutral; neutrality.
phylogenomicsnoun(genetics) The science that studies the relationship of the function of genes to their evolution.
isotaphonomynounEqual fossilization (or other fate) of organisms that are in the same environment
structuralismnoun(linguistics) The theory that a human language is a self-contained structure related to other elements which make up its existence.
living fossilnoun(evolutionary theory) Any living species which very closely resembles fossil relatives in most anatomical details.
plesiomorphnoun(taxonomy) An organism which represents a primitive state of evolution relative to another organism.
panspermynoun(biology) The doctrine that all organisms must come from living parents; biogenesis.
emboîtementnoun(biology, now historical) The outdated hypothesis that all living things proceed from pre-existing germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, enclosed one within another.
monogenistnoun(anthropology, historical) One who maintains that all members of the human race belong to a single species.
gradualismnoun(politics) The belief that change ought to be brought about in small, discrete increments rather than in abrupt strokes such as revolutions or uprisings.
transmutationismnoun(evolutionary theory) A belief in the transmutation of species.
homeomorphynoun(mathematics) The formation of a new graph by inserting new nodes along existing edges.

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