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Darwinizing

Darwinizing is the present participle and gerund of Darwinize.

Meaning of Darwinize

Verb

Darwinize (third-person singular simple present Darwinizes, present participle Darwinizing, simple past and past participle Darwinized)

  1. (transitive) To cause to conform to Darwinism.
    • 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[…]2004, Richard C. Francis, Why men won't ask for directions: the seductions of sociobiology, page 166

Questions about Darwinizing

What is Darwinizing the present participle and gerund of?
Darwinizing is the present participle and gerund of Darwinize.

Words near Darwinizing in the dictionary

  1. Darwinites
  2. Darwinization
  3. Darwinize
  4. Darwinized
  5. Darwinizes
  6. Darwinizing
  7. darwinned out
  8. darwinning out
  9. darwins
  10. darwins out
  11. darwinulid

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