Crossword-Solution: ORTHOGENESIS
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| the belief that biological variation results in new species, always along same path | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
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Sentences with ORTHOGENESIS (5)
The latter view under the name of "Orthogenesis," devised I believe by Eimer, at the present day commends itself to some naturalists.
Then there is the theory known as "Orthogenesis" which maintains that there is a continual changing in a definite direction from generation to generation.
The theory of orthogenesis propounded by Naegeli and Eimer, now gaining much ground, holds that evolution takes place in direct lines of progressive modification, and is not the result of apparent chance.
The theory of "orthogenesis," proposed by Naegeli and Eimer, makes the latter assumption; and it has found a considerable number of adherents among recent biological investigators, including some of our own colleagues, who have made important contributions to the investigation of this fundamental question.
There are dozens of theories,--mutation, orthogenesis, Weismanism, Mendelianism, etc.,-- and each has its adherents,--but they agree in one thing, that "Natural Selection" does not account for the forms of life on earth to-day.