progressionism

The thesis of geological progressionism had been denied by none other than Darwin's great geological mentor,

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The details of progressionism were worked out in many different ways.

EVOLUTIONISM THOMAS A. GOUDGE 1968

This was the metaphysical doctrine of universal progress, or progressionism.

EVOLUTIONISM THOMAS A. GOUDGE 1968

This fact tended to obscure the logical point that since biological evolutionism does not entail progressionism, it is quite possible to subscribe to the former without subscribing to the latter.

EVOLUTIONISM THOMAS A. GOUDGE 1968

The ancient idea that orga - nisms are animated by a vital force not found in inor - ganic matter had been invoked to account for the history of life by advocates of progressionism and

EVOLUTIONISM THOMAS A. GOUDGE 1968

The general definition of evolution he formulated was inspired by von Baer's description of embryological development, and also by Lamarckian progressionism.

EVOLUTIONISM THOMAS A. GOUDGE 1968

Exponents of Naturphilosophie, such F.W. J. Schelling and L.O. Oken, for whom progressionism had a strong appeal, had recourse to the belief that

EVOLUTIONISM THOMAS A. GOUDGE 1968

The linking of progressionism and transformism was mainly due to Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck.

EVOLUTIONISM THOMAS A. GOUDGE 1968

Another formulation of progressionism centered around the idea that a single, basic prototype had been more and more fully actualized in the history of nature.

EVOLUTIONISM THOMAS A. GOUDGE 1968