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What does transformism mean?

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Noun
  1. (evolutionary theory) The doctrine that living organisms have evolved from previously existing forms of living matter.
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From zoology has arisen the study of transformism, which now dominates the whole of biology.
That is the Darwinian part of an explanation of transformism which may be conceded as an hypothesis.
That is not quite without logical importance, for it shows that not biology alone has led to the transformism hypothesis.
It does not enter into our plan to set down here the proofs of transformism.
In no case can true variations claim to be of great importance in problems of transformism.
A direct consequence of this theory of embryological origin bears on the question of species transformism.

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