saltationism

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The belief that evolution operates by the sudden development of new species or biological features from one generation to the next. uncountable
    — Gould has misled himself by his own rhetorical emphasis on the purely poetic or literary resemblance between punctuationism, on the one hand, and true saltationism on the other.

词源

Etymology tree
English saltation
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English saltationism
From saltation + -ism.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary