Darwinize

English

Etymology

From Darwin +‎ -ize.

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.
   • 2004, Richard C. Francis, Why men won't ask for directions: the seductions of sociobiology, page 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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• Darwinization