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Darwinite
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English
Etymology
From en Darwin ite.
Noun
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en Darwinian.
One who believes in Darwinian evolution.
en 1879 Fashions of the Day in Medicine and Science: A Few More Hints Henry Strickland Constable 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.
en September 15, 1890 Lucifer Our Fallen Brethren C. Carter Blake 54 7 37 The appeal to the unknown and the imaginary is the modus operandi of the modern Darwinite.
en 2004 Collecting the Dead: Archaeology and the Reburial Issue Cressida Fforde 28 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).
Someone from Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
en 1933 We Find Australia Charles Henry Holmes 68 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.
en 1987 The Australian adventure Geoffrey Atkinson; Philip Quirk 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.
en 2014 Darwin Tess Lea Life wasn't easy for the Chinese, even if they knew how to be self-sufficient, fourth-generation Darwinite Laurence Ah Toy reminds me.
A silver-grey arsenide of copper (Cu18As).
en 1860 Philosophical Magazine On Darwinite, a new Mineral Species from Chile D. Forbes 423 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.
en 1866 Report of the Thirty-Fifth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science - Volume 35 29 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.
en 2008 The Ore Minerals Under the Microscope: An Optical Guide Bernhard Pracejus 92 Algodonite (Whitneyite, Darwinite).
en 2015 The Book of Stones Robert Simmons; Naisha Ahsian Darwinite is a stone of loving relationship.