Word: darwinistic
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...since the experience in question is fatal. Example: protective coloring in insects. If the coloring is defective and the insect is detected and devoured by preying birds, it cannot profit by the experience of being eaten or pass on any profit to any offspring. Only alternative is the neo-Darwinist conclusion that the insects which happen to have the most protective coloring will live longest and pass on their advantages to large numbers of offspring...