TubeTalkTubeTalk Pronunciation
How to pronounce “adaptationism”
Hear “adaptationism” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for adaptationism
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of adaptationism with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 0 YouTube examples
- Definition summary
- (evolutionary theory) The view that many traits of organisms are evolved adaptations.
No examples found yet
No TubeTalk examples are available for "adaptationism" yet. Try a related pronunciation target or check back as the index grows.
A Deep Dive Into “adaptationism”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (evolutionary theory) The view that many traits of organisms are evolved adaptations.
- (evolutionary theory) A set of methods for distinguishing traits resulting from adaptation from those arising through other processes.
- (derogatory, evolutionary theory) The belief that all traits are adaptations brought about by natural selection, when some are only functionless by-products (also called "spandrels").
Practice Nearby Words
adaptionism, adaptation, coevolution, bioadaptation, evolutionism, hyperadaptation, additivism, adaptability, counteradaptation, adaptomics, co-adaptation, bioevolution, evolutionary theory, preadaptation, survival of the fittest, transformism, thermoadaptation, acclimation, evolutionary trap, groundplan, specialization, pseudoadaptation, selective advantage, pathoadaptability, spandrel, pathoadaptation, co-evolution, adaptive radiation, photoadaptation, neoevolution, evolutionary biology, exaptation, evo-psych, mechanoadaptation, theistic evolutionism, evolution, lysenkoism, orthoplasy, lamarckianism, selection, acclimatization, progressionist, natural selection, orthogenesis, abiogeny, theistic evolution, evolvement, ecophysiology, metaevolution, darwinianism, radiation, fitness, lamarckism, transmutationism, ecophenotypism, darwin, homoplasy, saltationism, radioadaptation, allobiosis, pathoadaption, evolutionarily stable strategy, evolutionary creationism, microevolutionist, biopoiesis, teleonomy, ecotype, evolutionaries, darwinism, sexual selection, annidation, meta-evolution, ketoadaptation, red queen hypothesis, evolutionary developmental biology, orthoevolution, clanistics, misadaptation, teleogenesis, parsimony principle, advergence, group selection, orthoselection, epigenesis, carcinization, macroevolution, ecoevolution, panselectionism, monkeyism, evolutionary biologist, convergence, phyletic gradualism, preselection, transformationalism, aromorphosis, living fossil, modification, evolutionary stable strategy, island rule, aposematism
Similar Sounds
adoptionism, adaptions, adaptedness, adaptogen, adaptiveness, satanism, stalinism, citations, stationing, scepticism