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adaptationists

adaptationists is the plural of adaptationist.

Meaning of adaptationist

Noun

adaptationist (plural adaptationists)

  1. A supporter of adaptationism.
    • Until one is clear about just what one means by adaptationism, what evidence one needs to accuse someone of being an "adaptationist" will remain vague; this rather diminishes the force of the accusation.2006, Massimo Pigliucci, Jonathan Michael Kaplan, Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago Press

Questions about adaptationists

What is adaptationists the plural of?
Adaptationists is the plural of adaptationist.

Words near adaptationists in the dictionary

  1. adaptation
  2. adaptational
  3. adaptationally
  4. adaptationism
  5. adaptationist
  6. adaptationists
  7. adaptations
  8. adaptative
  9. adaptatively
  10. adaptativeness
  11. adaptativity

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