adaptationist
Noun
Meaning
adaptationist (plural adaptationists)
A supporter of adaptationism.
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In 1990, Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom published their paper "Natural Language and Natural Selection" citation which strongly argued for an adaptationist approach to language origins.
One of the major goals of adaptationist research is to identify which organismic traits are likely to be adaptations, and which are byproducts or random variations.