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  • adverb In a Darwinian manner.

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Examples

  • Indeed, parroting is a difficult profession and requires the mastery of many tricks of the trade -- what to eat; how to find mates; what sort of nest to build, and where; how to evade predators (especially with such anti-Darwinianly bright-colored plumage); and so on.

    March 22nd, 2009 m_francis 2009

  • He loves war, as many have noted, he is militantly Zionist, he is Darwinianly ruthless about individual self-reliance vs. governmental programs and regulation.

    Daniel Menaker: Kristol Myth 2008

  • That is to say; what is done with respect to data gathering and information communication is, Darwinianly, "fit to purpose".

    MSDN Blogs wvhuffel 2009

  • Here then is another gap which can not be bridged over, nor crossed; for the plant in process of conversion into an animal is in process of starvation, and when the process is about to be completed, it will end like the miser's horse, whose master diminished his oats Darwinianly, a single grain a day, until he had brought him to live on just one grain per day, when, alas! the victim of the experiment died.

    Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Robert Patterson 1857

  • Darwinianly speaking today’s survival is the bottom line.

    Yet Another Shopping Center at cvillenews.com 2003

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