[Ads-l] Darwinly, adv.

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jun 27 13:23:16 UTC 2018


'By a Darwinian or similar process of evolution.' Not in OED:
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1983
 https://www.atlantisjournal.org/old/Papers/v5%20n1%202/v5%20n1%202-7.pdf
<https://www.atlantisjournal.org/old/Papers/v5%20n1%202/v5%20n1%202-7.pdf> :
He has evolved Darwinly from neophyte to veteran, questioner to accepter.

GB has the less eccentric "Darwin-like" from 1989.

JL
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