Definition of Selectionist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Selectionist

selectees
selectest
selectin
selecting
selectins
selection
selection (genetics)
selection bias
selection cutting
selection pressure
selection rule
selection rules
selectional
selectionally
selectionist (current term)
selectionists
selections
selective
selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitor
selective advantage
selective amnesia
selective angiography
selective breeding
selective compression
selective distortion
selective grinding
selective hypoaldosteronism
selective immunoglobulin A deficiency
selective information

Literary usage of Selectionist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The System of Animate Nature: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the by John Arthur Thomson (1920)
"selectionist Interpretations and the Argument from Design. This seems the appropriate place for a consideration of what has been called the Argument from ..."

2. What is Adaptation? by Richard Ernest Lloyd (1914)
"Both Ideologist and selectionist see behind the manifestations of life a constructive principle working for an end. Teleology is therefore mechanistic in ..."

3. Habit and Instinct by Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1896)
"What habit, the natural selectionist may ask, is more obviously useful to the species ? ... For the selectionist intelligence, in its practical application, ..."

4. Habit and Instinct by Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1896)
"What habit, the natural selectionist may ask, is more obviously useful ... For the selectionist intelligence, in its practical application, is an absolutely ..."

5. Educational Psychology by Edward Lee Thorndike (1913)
"The words 'accidental' and 'chance' indeed, in recent selectionist writings, ... The germinal variations are, the selectionist would readily admit, ..."

6. Educational Psychology by Edward Lee Thorndike (1913)
"The words 'accidental' and 'chance' indeed, in recent selectionist ... The germinal variations are, the selectionist would readily admit, caused by the ..."

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