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▸ noun: (historical) A theory of evolution, stating that that individual modifications supplement, protect, or screen organic characters and keep them alive until useful congenital variations arise and survive by natural selection, and that this process, combined in many cases with 'tradition', gives direction to evolution.
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▸ noun: (historical) A theory of evolution, stating that that individual modifications supplement, protect, or screen organic characters and keep them alive until useful congenital variations arise and survive by natural selection, and that this process, combined in many cases with 'tradition', gives direction to evolution.
Similar:
orthoevolution,
orthoselection,
homoplasy,
orthogenesis,
homoplasia,
homeoplasy,
orthogeneticist,
phylembryogenesis,
orthogenetics,
teleogenesis,
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