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11reformist — 1. adjective a) Advocating reform of an institution or body. [...] all the prose is German, all reformist, all moralising, and has little or practically no echo of antiquity.<! …
12Edward Bagnall Poulton — Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton (January 27 1856 ndash;November 20 1943) was a British evolutionary zoologist. He became Hope Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford in 1893. Life Between 1873 and 1876, he studied at Jesus College, Oxford… …
13gradualism — noun Date: 1835 1. the policy of approaching a desired end by gradual stages 2. the evolution of new species by gradual accumulation of small genetic changes over long periods of time; also a theory or model of evolution emphasizing this compare… …
14Microevolution — Part of a series on Evolutionary Biology …
15William Harvey — For other people named William Harvey, see William Harvey (disambiguation). William Harvey William Harvey Born …
16Radiation hardening — is a method of designing and testing electronic components and systems to make them resistant to damage or malfunctions caused by ionizing radiation (particle radiation and high energy electromagnetic radiation),[1] such as would be encountered… …
17Economic history of the People's Republic of China — Throughout most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as during much of earlier Chinese history, the economy was barely able to meet the basic needs of the country s huge population the largest in the world. In normal years the economy… …
18Great Leap Forward — Failed industrialization campaign undertaken by the Chinese Communists between 1958 and early 1960. Mao Zedong hoped to develop labor intensive methods of industrialization that would emphasize manpower rather than the gradual purchase of heavy… …
19biological development — Introduction the progressive changes in size, shape, and function during the life of an organism by which its genetic potentials (genotype) are translated into functioning mature systems (phenotype). Most modern philosophical outlooks would …
20Evolution — The continuing process of change, especially in reference to natural selection. Charles Darwin (1809 82) noted that successful species produce more offspring in each generation than are needed to replace the adults who die. Not all offspring… …
