darwinism

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1. a theory of organic evolution claiming that new species arise and are perpetuated by natural selection (noun.cognition)

hypernym	:	evolutionism, theory of evolution, theory of organic evolution,
definition	:	(biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals (noun.cognition)

hyponym	:	neo-darwinism,
definition	:	a modern Darwinian theory that explains new species in terms of genetic mutations (noun.cognition)