As an adjective evolutionary
is of or relating to evolution.
As a noun diffusionism is
the belief that changes in one culture are caused by diffusion of ideas from another, especially the west.
evolutionary
English
Adjective
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Of or relating to evolution.
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- The evolutionary history of marine mammals includes land-dwelling ancestors.
Derived terms
* antievolutionary, anti-evolutionary
* coevolutionary, co-evolutionary
* evolutionarily
* evolutionary adaptation
* evolutionary adaptedness
* evolutionary advance
* evolutionary analysis
* evolutionary algorithm
* evolutionary altruism
* evolutionary ancestor
* evolutionary ancestry
* evolutionary anthropologist
* evolutionary anthropology
* evolutionary arms race
* evolutionary basis
* evolutionary behavior, evolutionary behaviour
* evolutionary biologist
* evolutionary biology
* evolutionary biology topic
* evolutionary cause
* evolutionary center, evolutionary centre
* evolutionary change
* evolutionary Christ
* evolutionary Christian
* evolutionary Christianity
* evolutionary convergence
* evolutionary descent
* evolutionary concept
* evolutionary conception
* evolutionary computation
* evolutionary development
* evolutionary developmental biologist
* evolutionary developmental biology
* evolutionary divergence
* evolutionary diversification
* evolutionary diversity
* evolutionary dynamics
* evolutionary dynamism
* evolutionary ecologist
* evolutionary ecology
* evolutionary embryologist
* evolutionary embryology
* evolutionary ethicist
* evolutionary ethics
* evolutionary ethologist
* evolutionary ethology
* evolutionary event
* evolutionary evangel
* evolutionary evangelism
* evolutionary evangelist
* evolutionary fitness
* evolutionary force
* evolutionary foundation
* evolutionary future
* evolutionary game
* evolutionary game theory
* evolutionary geneticist
* evolutionary genetics
* evolutionary gospel
* evolutionary historian
* evolutionary history
* evolutionary history of life
* evolutionary hypothesis
* evolutionary idea
* evolutionary ideologue
* evolutionary ideology
* evolutionary impact
* evolutionary innovation
* evolutionary level
* evolutionary machine
* evolutionary machinery
* evolutionary mechanism
* evolutionary metaphor
* evolutionary method
* evolutionary methodology
* evolutionary morphologist
* evolutionary morphology
* evolutionary naturalism
* evolutionary naturalist
* evolutionary natural selection
* evolutionary neuroscience
* evolutionary neuroscientist
* evolutionary novelty
* evolutionary origin
* evolutionary palaeontologist, evolutionary paleontologist
* evolutionary palaeontology, evolutionary paleontology
* evolutionary past
* evolutionary pattern
* evolutionary Pentecostal
* evolutionary Pentecostalism
* evolutionary philospher
* evolutionary philosophy
* evolutionary phylogeny
* evolutionary physiologist
* evolutionary physiology
* evolutionary plasticity
* evolutionary point
* evolutionary point of view
* evolutionary present
* evolutionary pressure
* evolutionary principle
* evolutionary process
* evolutionary Protestant
* evolutionary Protestantism
* evolutionary psychologist
* evolutionary psychology
* evolutionary radiation
* evolutionary reconstruction
* evolutionary relation
* evolutionary relationship
* evolutionary relative
* evolutionary research
* evolutionary researcher
* evolutionary science
* evolutionary scientist
* evolutionary selection
* evolutionary selection pressure
* evolutionary social psychologist
* evolutionary social psychology
* evolutionary speciation
* evolutionary species
* evolutionary species concept
* evolutionary stable equilibrium
* evolutionary stable strategy
* evolutionary stage
* evolutionary stasis
* evolutionary status
* evolutionary structure
* evolutionary success
* evolutionary synthesis
* evolutionary theoretician
* evolutionary theorist
* evolutionary theory
* evolutionary thinker
* evolutionary thinking
* evolutionary thought
* evolutionary time
* evolutionary timeline
* evolutionary tree
* evolutionary tree diagram
* evolutionary view
* evolutionary viewpoint
* evolutionary world
* evolutionary worldview
* macroevolutionary, macro-evolutionary
* microevolutionary, micro-evolutionary
* nonevolutionary, non-evolutionary
* postevolutionary, post-evolutionary
* preevolutionary, pre-evolutionary
* proevolutionary, pro-evolutionary
* protoevolutionary, proto-evolutionary
* pseudoevolutionary, pseudo-evolutionary
diffusionism
English
Noun
(-)
The belief that changes in one culture are caused by diffusion of ideas from another, especially the West.
Related terms
* diffusionist