English Dictionary

gradualism

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(biology) The belief that evolution proceeds at a steady pace, without the sudden development of new species or biological features from one generation to the next.

日本語の意味

生物学において、進化が急激な変化によらず、各世代を通じて徐々に進展するという考え方 / 新種や生物学的特徴が突然現れるのではなく、着実かつ段階的に変化していくという立場

In many biology classes, professors explain gradualism as the idea that major changes arise through the steady accumulation of small variations over long time periods.

多くの生物学の授業で、教授は漸進主義（進化が徐々に進むという考え）を説明し、大きな変化は長い時間をかけた小さな変異の着実な蓄積によって生じると述べます。

意味（1）

(biology) The belief that evolution proceeds at a steady pace, without the sudden development of new species or biological features from one generation to the next.

意味（2）

(transferred sense) The belief that some phenomenon occurs gradually over a long period of time.

Given enough time, the logic goes, water can cleave solid rock and mountains can be reduced to plains. This gradualism now underpins modern geologic thought. ... Maybe we'll find evidence that the rock layers are exposed on the flanks of Mount Sharp [on Mars] not because a river carved through them over millions of years, but because the wind blew against them for billions of years – the ultimate in gradualism.

意味（3）

(politics) The belief that change ought to be brought about in small, discrete increments rather than in abrupt strokes such as revolutions or uprisings.

gradualisms （ plural ）