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adaptionist

adaptionist is the alternative form 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

Forms of adaptionist

pluraladaptionists

Origin of adaptionist

From adaption + -ist.

Questions about adaptionist

What is adaptionist the alternative form of?
Adaptionist is the alternative form of adaptationist.

Words near adaptionist in the dictionary

  1. adaptins
  2. adaption
  3. adaptional
  4. adaptionally
  5. adaptionism
  6. adaptionist
  7. adaptionists
  8. adaptions
  9. adaptitude
  10. adaptitudes
  11. adaptive

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