Definition of Selectionists

1. selectionist [n] - See also: selectionist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Selectionists

selectest
selectin
selecting
selectins
selection
selection (genetics)
selection bias
selection cutting
selection pressure
selection rule
selection rules
selectional
selectionally
selectionist
selectionists (current term)
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
selective inhibition

Literary usage of Selectionists

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

1. Theories of Social Progress: A Critical Study of the Attempts to Formulate by Arthur James Todd (1918)
"... CHAPTER XVI THE selectionists OF the three basic factors in biological evolution, namely, variability, selection, and transmission, we shall consider ..."

2. What is Adaptation? by Richard Ernest Lloyd (1914)
"The other consists of selectionists and anti-selectionists. A bystander would not at first notice that the two circles were engaged in the same dispute, ..."

3. Evolution and Adaptation by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1903)
"This assumption of the selectionists has led many of them to ignore a ... In contrast to this complacency of the selectionists, we find here and there ..."

4. Evolution and Adaptation by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1908)
"This assumption of the selectionists has led many of them to ignore a ... In contrast to this complacency of the selectionists, we find here and there ..."

5. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"The former are not denied by selectionists; but they claim that the sort of effect thus produced upon the offspring is rather a disproof than a proof of ..."

6. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"The former are not denied by selectionists ; but they claim that the sort of effect thus produced upon the offspring is rather a disproof than a proof of ..."

7. Darwinism To-day: A Discussion of Present-day Scientific Criticism of the by Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"As a matter of fact the indifference of many specific characteristics of organisms is not denied by selectionists. Romanes " was perhaps the first ..."

8. Development and Evolution: Including Psychophysical Evolution, Evolution by by James Mark Baldwin (1902)
"These are considered by selectionists as being mainly of an a priori character, ... Effects of the former sort are not denied by selectionists; ..."

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