THEORY OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does theory of organic evolution mean? 

• THEORY OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION (noun)
  The noun THEORY OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION has 1 sense:

1. (biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals

  Familiarity information: THEORY OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION used as a noun is very rare.

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• THEORY OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION (noun)

Meaning:

(biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

evolutionism; theory of evolution; theory of organic evolution

Hypernyms ("theory of organic evolution" is a kind of...):

scientific theory (a theory that explains scientific observations)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "theory of organic evolution"):

Darwinism (a theory of organic evolution claiming that new species arise and are perpetuated by natural selection)

Lamarckism (a theory of organic evolution claiming that acquired characteristics are transmitted to offspring)

punctuated equilibrium; theory of punctuated equilibrium (a theory of evolution holding that evolutionary change in the fossil record came in fits and starts rather than in a steady process of slow change)