Meaning of Darwinite | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of Darwinian.
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2. One who believes in Darwinian evolution.
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3. Someone from Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
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4. A silver-grey arsenide of copper (Cu₁₈As).
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Examples

“Oh, but, guesses our ingenious Darwinite, in this breed the male birds courted the bright-coloured ones and neglected the others, and thus a bright-coloured race has survived by natural selection.”

“The appeal to the unknown and the imaginary is the modus operandi of the modern Darwinite.”

“In fact, as was already being demonstrated by German anatomist Carl Vogt, a polygenist and Darwinite, the theory of natural selection could easily be used within a strictly polygenist framework by arguing that the different races had evolved separately from different species of anthropoid apes (Hunt 1866: 339).”

“Our introduction to the amazing wildfowl in the north was at the end of a forty-mile run, due east of Darwin near the Adelaide River, with Jim Ward, a Darwinite, at the wheel of a highpowered car.”

“Australia's north pole has a magnetic charm, and like many others, you could become a permanent statistic — something the locals are proud to call a Darwinite.”

“Life wasn't easy for the Chinese, even if they knew how to be self-sufficient, fourth-generation Darwinite Laurence Ah Toy reminds me.”

“The name Darwinite has been adopted in honour of Darwin, whose admirable geological examination of this part of South America is so well known as to require no comment.”

“The mineral Darwinite was proved identical with a mineral which had been about same time found at Lake Superior, and which had been called Whitneyite.”

“Algodonite (Whitneyite, Darwinite).”

“Darwinite is a stone of loving relationship.”

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