transformism
nounEtymology From transform + -ism.
1
The doctrine that living organisms have evolved from previously existing forms of living matter.
Evolutionary theory
- In a word, the embryology and the taxinomy of the animal kinds, enlightened by the doctrine of transformism, show to us the slow acquisition of conscient life in the animal kingdom.1893, Charles Letourneau, Sociology Based Upon Ethnography, page 552:
2
Government, Politics Synonym of trasformismo.
- Derived terms
- transformist, transformistic