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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who believes that new species arise as mutations, sports, or sudden and inheritable changes of type. See mutation, 8.

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Examples

  • It would he difficult for a mutationist to explain how a mutation should affect the development of the cloacal bladder to such an enormous degree, just when it was required for embryonic respiration, and cause the sides of the body to unite ventrally at the time of hatching, cutting off the allantois and the amnion.

    Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897

  • No mutationist has yet produced by breeding experiments a caterpillar without the three pairs of thoracic legs and yet developing into a moth that had normal three pairs.

    Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897

  • T.H. Morgan is the only mutationist, so far as my reading has gone, who has attempted to do this, and he seems to me to have failed to understand the difficulties or even the nature of the problem.

    Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897

  • Bartholomaeus Anglicus, an English Franciscan of the thirteenth century, was a mutationist in his way, as Aristotle, "the Philosopher" of the Christian Schoolmen, had been in his.

    Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880

  • I started The Curious Disconnect with the The Mutationism Myth because 1) most evolutionists don't understand how the Modern Synthesis came into existence as a theory1 that entails risky conjectures, and 2) the mutationist challenge provides the definitive historical proof that the Modern Synthesis is a theory1 and not just a commitment to selection and the rules of genetics.

    Sandwalk Larry Moran 2010

  • I started The Curious Disconnect with the The Mutationism Myth because 1) most evolutionists don't understand how the Modern Synthesis came into existence as a theory1 that entails risky conjectures, and 2) the mutationist challenge provides the definitive historical proof that the Modern Synthesis is a theory1 and not just a commitment to selection and the rules of genetics.

    Sandwalk Larry Moran 2010

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