网站首页  汉语  德语  英语

请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 adaptationism
释义

Definition of adaptationism in English:

adaptationism

noun adəpˈteɪʃ(ə)nɪz(ə)mˌadapˈtāSHəˌnizəm
mass nounBiology
  • The axiom or assumption that each feature of an organism is the result of evolutionary adaptation for a particular function.

    〔生〕适应性演化原理;适应性演化假说

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is of course a short step from these premises to the view that adaptation is a universal moulder of forms and behaviour, and adaptationism a universal acid for dissolving away scientific problems.
    • This joint consideration of Darwinian adaptationism and ecology has, in fact, produced the discipline of behavioral ecology.
    • This makes adaptationism a powerful method for explaining why we think the way we do - but it does not mean that it is the only way of explaining it, or that it should be the preferred one.
    • That's the continental tradition as much as adaptationism is the English tradition.
    • The point of the critique of adaptationism, as Brandon reads it, was to remind us that factors other than selection are relevant to understanding the emergence of evolutionary patterns.

Derivatives

  • adaptationist

  • adjective & noun
    Biology
    • Many are underpinned by evolutionary and adaptationist paradigms.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This is an adaptationist account of evolution, and one that most evolutionists would probably accept as uncontroversial.
      • The problem with existing adaptationist hypotheses of human reproductive behavior is twofold.
      • This facet of human psychology has attracted the notice of numerous adaptationists.
      • Selectionist or adaptationist thinking was proposed by two Englishmen, Darwin and Wallace, and the first converts were also therefore British.

Definition of adaptationism in US English:

adaptationism

nounˌadapˈtāSHəˌnizəm
Biology
  • The belief or assumption, now generally held, that each feature of an organism is the result of evolutionary adaptation for a particular function.

    〔生〕适应性演化原理;适应性演化假说

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The point of the critique of adaptationism, as Brandon reads it, was to remind us that factors other than selection are relevant to understanding the emergence of evolutionary patterns.
    • That's the continental tradition as much as adaptationism is the English tradition.
    • It is of course a short step from these premises to the view that adaptation is a universal moulder of forms and behaviour, and adaptationism a universal acid for dissolving away scientific problems.
    • This joint consideration of Darwinian adaptationism and ecology has, in fact, produced the discipline of behavioral ecology.
    • This makes adaptationism a powerful method for explaining why we think the way we do - but it does not mean that it is the only way of explaining it, or that it should be the preferred one.
随便看

 

雅致网英汉双解词典包含236457条英汉翻译词条,涵盖了常用英语单词及词组短语的翻译及用法,是英语学习的必备工具。

 

Copyright © 2002-2024 53pku.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/6/19 10:58:52