Meanings
verbDarwinize (third-person singular simple present Darwinizes, present participle Darwinizing, simple past and past participle Darwinized)
present singular third person Darwinizes · participle present Darwinizing · participle past Darwinized · past Darwinized
- transitiveTo cause to conform to Darwinism.
Whereas Darwinian social scientists had sought to Darwinize manifest behavior by demonstrating its adaptiveness, the focus of evolutionary psychologists is on the "deeper" psychological mechanisms[…]
2004, Richard C. Francis, Why men won't ask for directions: the seductions of sociobiology, page 166
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Darwinize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Darwinize
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