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NOUN (1)

1. a modern Darwinian theory that explains new species in terms of genetic mutations;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Neo-Darwinism \Ne`o-Dar"win*ism\, n. The theory which holds natural selection, as explained by Darwin, to be the chief factor in the evolution of plants and animals, and denies the inheritance of acquired characters; -- esp. opposed to Neo-Lamarckism. Weismannism is an example of extreme Neo-Darwinism. -- Ne`o-Dar*win"i*an, a. & n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Weismannism \Weis"mann*ism\, n. (Biol.) The theories and teachings in regard to heredity propounded by the German biologist August Weismann, esp. in regard to germ plasm as the basis of heredity and the impossibility of transmitting acquired characteristics; -- often called neo-Darwinism. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

neo-Darwinism n 1: a modern Darwinian theory that explains new species in terms of genetic mutations