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Evolutionism is a term used (often derogatorily) to denote the theory of evolution. Its exact meaning has changed over time as the study of evolution has progressed. In the 19th century, it was used to describe the belief that organisms deliberately improved themselves through progressive inherited change (orthogenesis). The teleological belief went on to include cultural evolution and social evolution. In the 1970s, the term "Neo-Evolutionism" was used to describe the idea that "human beings sought to preserve a familiar style of life unless change was forced on them by factors that were beyond their control." The term is most often used by creationists to describe adherence to the scientific consensus on evolution as equivalent to a secular religion. The term is very seldom used within the scientific community, since the scientific position on evolution is accepted by the overwhelming majority of scientists. Because evolutionary biology is the default scientific position, it is assumed that "scientists" or "biologists" are "evolutionists" unless specifically noted otherwise. In the creation–evolution controversy, creationists often call those who accept the validity of the modern evolutionary synthesis "evolutionists" and the theory itself "evolutionism". Before its use to describe biological evolution, the term "evolution" was originally used to refer to any orderly sequence of events with the outcome somehow contained at the start. The first five editions of Darwin's in Origin of Species used the word "evolved", but the word "evolution" was only used in its sixth edition in 1872. By then, Herbert Spencer had developed the concept theory that organisms strive to evolve due to an internal "driving force" (orthogenesis) in 1862. Edward B. Tylor and Lewis H Morgan brought the term "evolution" to anthropology though they tended toward the older pre-Spencerian definition helping to form the concept of unilineal (social) evolution used during the later part of what Trigger calls the Antiquarianism-Imperial Synthesis period (c1770-c1900).
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L'Origine des espèces (On the Origin of Species) est un ouvrage scientifique de Charles Darwin, publié le pour sa première édition anglaise sous le titre L'origine des espèces au moyen de la sélection naturelle ou la préservation des races favorisées dans la lutte pour la survie. Cet ouvrage est considéré comme le texte fondateur de la théorie de l'évolution. Dans ce livre, Darwin présente la théorie scientifique de l'évolution des espèces vivantes à partir d'autres espèces généralement éteintes, au moyen de la sélection naturelle.
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Evolutionism is a term used (often derogatorily) to denote the theory of evolution. Its exact meaning has changed over time as the study of evolution has progressed. In the 19th century, it was used to describe the belief that organisms deliberately improved themselves through progressive inherited change (orthogenesis). The teleological belief went on to include cultural evolution and social evolution. In the 1970s, the term "Neo-Evolutionism" was used to describe the idea that "human beings sought to preserve a familiar style of life unless change was forced on them by factors that were beyond their control.
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'Charles Robert Darwin' , né le à Shrewsbury dans le Shropshire et mort le à Downe dans le Kent, est un naturaliste et paléontologue britannique dont les travaux sur l'évolution des espèces vivantes ont révolutionné la biologie avec son ouvrage L'Origine des espèces paru en 1859. Célèbre au sein de la communauté scientifique de son époque pour son travail sur le terrain et ses recherches en géologie, il a adopté l'hypothèse émise 50 ans auparavant par le Français Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck selon laquelle toutes les espèces vivantes ont évolué au cours du temps à partir d'un seul ou quelques ancêtres communs et il a soutenu avec Alfred Wallace que cette évolution était due au processus de sélection naturelle.
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