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Darwinize
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English
Etymology
From en Darwin ize.
Verb
en transitive To cause to conform to Darwinism.
en 2004 Richard C. Francis Why men won't ask for directions: the seductions of sociobiology 166 Whereas Darwinian social scientists had sought to Darwinize manifest behavior by demonstrating its adaptiveness, the focus of evolutionary psychologists is on the "deeper" psychological mechanisms
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