neo-Darwinian
adjective
neo-Dar·win·ian
ˌnē-ō-där-ˈwi-nē-ən 
: of or relating to neo-Darwinism
neo-Darwinian
noun
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Rosenberg and her colleagues have found evidence for a mechanism--a set of enzymes responsible for recombining bacterial DNA--that could produce Cairns’s Lamarckian results in a neo-Darwinian way.
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Sarah Richardson, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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neo-Darwinian
adjective
neo-Dar·win·ian
-där-ˈwin-ē-ən
: of or relating to neo-Darwinism
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