Noun
adaptationist (plural adaptationists)
A supporter of adaptationism.
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. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet