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Point in evolutionary space where selection always leads
An evolutionary attractor is a point in an evolutionary space where a selection process will always drive trait values towards that point from the region
Evolutionary_attractor
Topics referred to by the same term
House Evolutionary attractor, a tendency in evolution All pages with titles beginning with attractor All pages with titles containing attractor Attract (disambiguation)
Attractor_(disambiguation)
Change in the heritable traits of populations
of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes such as genetic drift and natural selection act on genetic
Evolution
Branch of psychology
Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks
Evolutionary_psychology
Chinese scholar
Bifurcation theory, including the Chen attractor, a kind of dynamical system attractor named after him (see Multiscroll attractor). In 1948, Chen Guanrong was born
Chen_Guanrong
British scientist
Strange Attractor Press. pp. 291–316. ISBN 978-1-907222-43-6. Gallimore AR (2013). "Building Alien Worlds—The Neuropsychological and Evolutionary Implications
Andrew_Gallimore
Attributes of living species that arose due to coevolution with other now-extinct species
Evolutionary anachronism, also known as "ecological anachronism", is a term initially referring to attributes of certain plant species that possess traits
Evolutionary_anachronism
Application of game theory to evolving populations in biology
Evolutionary game theory (EGT) is the application of game theory to evolving populations in biology. It defines a framework of contests, strategies, and
Evolutionary_game_theory
Attraction on the basis of sexual desire
other visual media, as well as in modeling and other occupations. In evolutionary terms, the ovulatory shift hypothesis posits that female humans exhibit
Sexual_attraction
Scientific concept
Evolutionary mismatch (also "mismatch theory" or "evolutionary trap") is the evolutionary biology concept that a previously advantageous trait may become
Evolutionary_mismatch
2009 non-fiction work by Sharon Moalem
book examines the scientific reasons people are attracted to one another, including the evolutionary underpinnings of sexual attraction, monogamy, and
How_Sex_Works
Aquatic animal phylum having cnidocytes
separate phylum. It is difficult to reconstruct the early stages in the evolutionary "family tree" of animals using only morphology (their shapes and structures)
Cnidaria
State of a system after conditions are changed, before it settles into steady state
never returning. Equivalently, fii < 1 where fii = P(return to state i) Attractor Carrying capacity Control theory Dynamical system Ecological footprint
Transient_state
Predator at the top of a food chain
management, conservation, and ecotourism. Apex predators have a long evolutionary history, dating at least to the Cambrian period when animals such as
Apex_predator
Evolutionary process
it is the dynamic evolutionary process of natural selection that fits organisms to their environment, enhancing their evolutionary fitness. Secondly,
Adaptation
19th-century scientific controversy
laughing-stock of all the continental anatomists." This very public slanging match attracted wide attention, and humorists were quick to take up the opportunity for
Great_Hippocampus_Question
System composed of many interacting components
A plot of the Lorenz attractor
Complex_system
Evolutionary psychology theories
Evolutionary aesthetics refers to evolutionary psychology theories in which the basic aesthetic preferences of Homo sapiens are argued to have evolved
Evolutionary_aesthetics
Model of multi-species population dynamics
or attractors. Hirsch proved that all of the dynamics of the attractor occur on a manifold of dimension N−1. This essentially says that the attractor cannot
Competitive Lotka–Volterra equations
Competitive_Lotka–Volterra_equations
1859 book on evolution by Charles Darwin
naturalist Charles Darwin that is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. It was published on 24 November 1859. Darwin's book introduced
On_the_Origin_of_Species
Controversy in psychology
Evolutionary psychology seeks to identify and understand human psychological traits that have evolved in much the same way as biological traits, through
Criticism of evolutionary psychology
Criticism_of_evolutionary_psychology
Family of carnivoran mammals
S2CID 4371413. Berta, A.; Morgan, C.; Boessenecker, R.W. (2018). "The Origin and Evolutionary Biology of Pinnipeds: Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses". Annual Review
Bear
Behavioral theory
Costly signaling theory in evolutionary psychology refers to uses of costly signaling theory and adaptationism in explanations for psychological traits
Costly signaling theory in evolutionary psychology
Costly_signaling_theory_in_evolutionary_psychology
the late Devonian, Elkinsia, an early seed fern, had evolved seeds. Evolutionary innovation continued throughout the rest of the Phanerozoic eon and still
Evolutionary history of plants
Evolutionary_history_of_plants
Theory in evolutionary biology proposed to explain sex ratio deviations in mammals
In evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology, the Trivers–Willard hypothesis, formally proposed by Robert Trivers and Dan Willard in 1973, suggests
Trivers–Willard_hypothesis
Awareness of internal and external existence
humans but even some non-mammalian species are conscious, a number of evolutionary approaches to the problem of neural correlates of consciousness open
Consciousness
Drug use vs. human evolutionary fitness
Evolutionary models of drug use seek to explain human drug usage from the perspective of evolutionary fitness. Plants, for instance, may provide fitness
Evolutionary models of human drug use
Evolutionary_models_of_human_drug_use
Basic unit of taxonomic classification, below genus
fixed and distinct from one another, there would be no problem, but evolutionary processes cause species to change. This obliges taxonomists to decide
Species
Hypothesis that those who grow up together become desensitized to sexual attraction
(21 April 2021). "Westermarck Effect and Imprinting". Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. pp. 8496–8498. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-19650-3_3618
Westermarck_effect
Order of insects
of description (1.7 to 2.1 million). This immense diversity led the evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane to quip, when some theologians asked him what
Beetle
Family of apes
gibbons in comparison to their close relatives, which is critical for evolutionary development. The very high rate of chromosomal disorder and rearrangements
Gibbon
Vocalizations produced by females for mating
females, and female non-primates. They are not purposeful, but instead are evolutionary and are spontaneously produced by female primates, including women, to
Female copulatory vocalizations
Female_copulatory_vocalizations
Predatory cartilaginous fishes
Shimada, Kenshu; Field, Daniel J.; Smaers, Jeroen B. (March 2019). "Evolutionary pathways toward gigantism in sharks and rays". Evolution. 73 (3): 588–599
Shark
Attraction between people of the same sex or gender
Volker & Paul L. Vasey (2006), Homosexual Behaviour in Animals, An Evolutionary Perspective. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-86446-1
Homosexuality
preferences for partners can stem from partner availability, gender roles, and evolutionary mating strategies, and age preferences in sexual partners may vary cross-culturally
Age disparity in sexual relationships
Age_disparity_in_sexual_relationships
Comic book crossover
"The Evolutionary War" was a comic book crossover which ran through most of the 1988 annuals published by Marvel Comics. The principal writers included
The_Evolutionary_War
generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organization
Timeline_of_life
Theory in evolutionary biology
In evolutionary biology, punctuated equilibrium (also called punctuated equilibria) is a theory that proposes that once a species appears in the fossil
Punctuated_equilibrium
Reproductive structure in flowering plants
help disseminate seeds. Sexual reproduction between plants results in evolutionary adaptation, which improves species survival. Plants favour cross-pollination
Flower
the pre-cell scenario is shown in the adjacent figure, where important evolutionary improvements are indicated by numbers. Wet-dry cycles at geothermal springs
History_of_life
English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from
Charles_Darwin
Desirable qualities in partners
a romantic or sexual partner. Research across many domains, such as evolutionary biology, psychology, and anthropology, shows that humans display both
Mate_choice_in_humans
Sexually provocative material or action
would be considered promiscuous in certain cultures around the world. In evolutionary terms, sexual suggestiveness is a mode from which sexual mates are gained
Sexual_suggestiveness
Largest species of toothed whale
extensive lateral bending and facilitate more dorso-ventral bending. These evolutionary modifications make the spine more flexible but weaker than the spines
Sperm_whale
Strong, positive emotional/mental states
on those feelings, but rather depends only on conscious commitment. Evolutionary psychology has attempted to provide various reasons for love as a survival
Love
Use of language of goal-directedness in the context of evolutionary adaptation
biology is the use of the language of goal-directedness in accounts of evolutionary adaptation, which some biologists and philosophers of science find problematic
Teleology_in_biology
the evolutionary origins of social instincts in humans. Modern evolutionary psychology, however, is possible only because of advances in evolutionary theory
Theoretical foundations of evolutionary psychology
Theoretical_foundations_of_evolutionary_psychology
Species of cat native to Africa and Asia
leopard (Panthera pardus) and its extinct Eurasian populations". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 18 (1): 156. Bibcode:2018BMCEE..18..156P. doi:10.1186/s12862-018-1268-0
Leopard
Class of ectothermic tetrapods
Carboniferous/Early Permian origin for extant amphibians. The origins and evolutionary relationships between the three main groups of amphibians is a matter
Amphibian
Sex-specific adaptations
cost to produce or maintain, suggesting complex evolutionary implications, but the costs and evolutionary implications vary from species to species. The
Sexual_dimorphism
Desire to treat cute things aggressively
vulnerability which adults are receptive to. Psychoanalyst John Bowlby in his Evolutionary Theory of Attachment suggests that babies are pre-programmed to elicit
Cute_aggression
Social interaction aiming at inflicting harm or unpleasantness
profound differences in the extent of acceptance of a biological or evolutionary basis for human aggression. Aggression can involve violence that may
Aggression
Life stance that embraces human reason, secular ethics, and philosophical naturalism
moral codes from a philosophy of utilitarianism, ethical naturalism, or evolutionary ethics, and some advocate a science of morality. Humanists International
Secular_humanism
Group of troglofauna
adaptations, such insects are significant in many senses, ecological, evolutionary, and physiological. A cave is an unusually well-defined ecological habitat
Cave_insect
Country in Central Asia
economic challenges upon acquiring independence, the government adopted an evolutionary reform strategy, with an emphasis on state control, reduction of imports
Uzbekistan
British science-fiction author (born 1957)
of advanced theories and ideas, such as the true nature of the Great Attractor, naked singularities and the great battle between baryonic and dark matter
Stephen_Baxter_(author)
Causal relationship in philosophy
the behavior of its components. The emergent phenomenon then forms an attractor for neighboring components that are not yet involved in the interaction
Downward_causation
Extinct clade of armored dinosaurs
small, low-slung, running animals protected by armored scutes. An early evolutionary innovation was the development of spikes as defensive weapons. Later
Stegosauria
Wild cat species native to the Americas
research on felids remains partial, and much of what is known about their evolutionary history is based on mitochondrial DNA analysis. Significant confidence
Cougar
Taxonomic group of semi-aquatic mammals
Churchill, Morgan; Boessenecker, Robert W. (30 May 2018). "The Origin and Evolutionary Biology of Pinnipeds: Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses". Annual Review
Pinniped
Body-covering structure of birds
integumentary structures found in vertebrates and an example of a complex evolutionary novelty. They are among the characteristics that distinguish the extant
Feather
Social scientist
world transformation. They are hopeful for a better future as a "strange attractor". Most believe they are pragmatists in this world, even as they imagine
Futurist
Feature of systems that defy description
cause of complex behaviour. Recent developments in artificial life, evolutionary computation and genetic algorithms have led to an increasing emphasis
Complexity
New World vulture
grayish-black head and neck, and a short, hooked beak. These features are all evolutionary adaptations to life as a scavenger; their black plumage stays visibly
Black_vulture
Evolution and neuroscience of romantic love
romantic love has been explored by such biological sciences as evolutionary psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and neuroscience. Neurochemicals
Biology_of_romantic_love
Male reproductive cell
; Hosken, Dave J.; Birkhead, Tim R. (2008-11-21). Sperm Biology: An Evolutionary Perspective. Academic Press. pp. 43–44. ISBN 978-0-08-091987-4. Fitzpatrick
Sperm
American evolutionary psychologist (born 1953)
David Michael Buss (born April 14, 1953) is an American evolutionary psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, researching human sex differences
David_Buss
Burrowing mammal native to Africa
simultaneous analysis of genomic, morphological, and fossil evidence". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 7 (1): 224. Bibcode:2007BMCEE...7..224S. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-224
Aardvark
American ethnobotanist, lecturer, and writer (1946–2000)
the universe, in relation to novelty theory, as having a teleological attractor at the end of time, which increases interconnectedness and would eventually
Terence_McKenna
American UFO religion (1974–1997)
they would ascend to heaven, referred to as the "Next Level" or "The Evolutionary Level Above Human". The death of Nettles from cancer in 1985 challenged
Heaven's Gate (religious group)
Heaven's_Gate_(religious_group)
Neuroscientific approaches purposed under the scope of applied aesthetics
and evolutionary biologists alike have accumulated evidence suggesting that human interest in, and creation of, art evolved as an evolutionarily necessary
Neuroesthetics
Canadian pornographic video-sharing website
Evolutionary Perspectives on Online Pornography". In Workman, Lance; Reader, Will; Barkow, Jerome H. (eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives
Pornhub
Demographics of people born from the early 2010s to mid 2020s
Shaun; Hirshleifer, David; Komarova, Natalia L. (April 15, 2020). "Evolutionary dynamics of culturally transmitted, fertility-reducing traits". Proceedings
Demographics of Generation Alpha
Demographics_of_Generation_Alpha
Aspect of photography history
technology firsts (including optics peculiar to SLRs and important SLR evolutionary lines now extinct). 1676 Johann Sturm (Germany) described first known
History of the single-lens reflex camera
History_of_the_single-lens_reflex_camera
British computer scientist (died 2026)
developed the MSc programme on Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems (EASy), which was active in the 1990s and 2000s, attracting dozens of students that have
Inman_Harvey
Biological interaction
spines and chemicals. Sometimes predator and prey find themselves in an evolutionary arms race, a cycle of adaptations and counter-adaptations. Predation
Predation
Branch of literary criticism
traditionally considered as evolutionary biology: evolutionary psychology, evolutionary anthropology, behavioral ecology, evolutionary developmental psychology
Darwinian_literary_studies
Hierarchical level in biological classification
clade—occupies in a hierarchical system of classification, which is based on evolutionary relationships. Some authors prefer to use the term nomenclatural rank
Taxonomic_rank
Human sexual psychology relating to the anatomical posterior
contain more adipose tissue than in males, especially after puberty. Evolutionary psychologists suggest that rounded buttocks may have evolved as a desirable
Cultural history of the buttocks
Cultural_history_of_the_buttocks
Country in Southwestern Europe
the late appearance of the legend under circumstances that point to an evolutionary process. It should also be noted that, according to the 16th century
Portugal
Two or more species influencing each other's evolution
evolution, as well as gene-culture coevolution. Charles Darwin mentioned evolutionary interactions between flowering plants and insects in On the Origin of
Coevolution
Phylum of segmented worms
research since 1997 has radically changed scientists' views about the evolutionary family tree of the annelids, most textbooks use the traditional classification
Annelid
Subfield of biomusicology
Evolutionary musicology is a subfield of biomusicology that grounds the cognitive mechanisms of music appreciation and music creation in evolutionary
Evolutionary_musicology
List of characters appearing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Kai Zen) is a Star Child, a species genetically engineered by the High Evolutionary. Phyla met the Guardians of the Galaxy and escaped her imprisonment,
Characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: M–Z
Characters_of_the_Marvel_Cinematic_Universe:_M–Z
Common name for beetles that eat flour
ISSN 0307-6946. Dawson, Peter S. (1977). "Life History Strategy and Evolutionary History of Tribolium Flour Beetles". Evolution. 31 (1): 226–229. doi:10
Flour_beetle
Publication ranking national happiness based on respondent ratings of their lives
happiness in human evolution through rewarding behaviors that increase evolutionary success and beneficial to survival. Chapter 5, Restoring Virtue Ethics
World_Happiness_Report
Function of chemical receptors
they are in the antennal lobe. Olfaction is metabolically costly. The evolutionary trade-offs involved require further study because as of 2016[update]
Insect_olfaction
Period in Argentine cinema history
cinema. Like Di Núbila, Mahieu proposed a history of Argentine cinema in evolutionary terms and with a focus on the opposition between the national and the
Golden Age of Argentine cinema
Golden_Age_of_Argentine_cinema
Small domesticated carnivorous mammal
that has a common ancestor from about 10 to 15 million years ago. The evolutionary radiation of the Felidae began in Asia during the Miocene around 8.38 to 14
Cat
Process of forming order by local interactions
terms of an attractor in a basin of surrounding states. Once there, the further evolution of the system is constrained to remain in the attractor. This constraint
Self-organization
Presence of cells originating from another individual
(October 2015). "Fetal microchimerism and maternal health: a review and evolutionary analysis of cooperation and conflict beyond the womb". BioEssays. 37
Microchimerism
Species of hyena
evolution in spotted hyena and primate intelligence. A study done by evolutionary anthropologists demonstrated that spotted hyenas outperform chimpanzees
Spotted_hyena
elementary particles Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002): American paleontologist, Evolutionary biologist, science historian and popularizer; called himself a "Jewish
List_of_agnostics
Biological system protecting an organism against disease
1186/s13062-017-0177-2. PMC 5303251. PMID 28187792. Bayne CJ (2003). "Origins and evolutionary relationships between the innate and adaptive arms of immune systems"
Immune_system
Hypothesis of female mating behavior
The ovulatory shift hypothesis asserts that human women experience evolutionarily adaptive changes in subconscious thoughts and behaviors related to mating
Ovulatory_shift_hypothesis
Country in West Asia
extreme environmental fluctuation in the Quaternary that led to profound evolutionary and demographic changes. Arabia's rich Lower Paleolithic record, marked
Saudi_Arabia
Fish that can generate electric fields
Marcusenius macrolepidotus in this way. This has driven the prey, in an evolutionary arms race, to develop more complex or higher frequency signals that are
Electric_fish
Peruvian painter and artist (1933–2019)
«neither irony nor aggressiveness» but rather «a desire to show the evolutionary process of art». This series earned him the title of «virtuoso with a
Herman_Braun-Vega
Explicit material produced by generative AI
with discovery and enhancing user engagement. AI porn sites, therefore, attract those seeking unique or niche experiences, sparking debates on creativity
Generative_AI_pornography
1993 novel by Stephen Baxter
to support human control. Bolder's mission was simple: go to the Great Attractor, the cause of most galactic drift, and find out why and how it exists
Timelike_Infinity
EVOLUTIONARY ATTRACTOR
EVOLUTIONARY ATTRACTOR
Surname or Lastname
English (also well established in South Wales)
English (also well established in South Wales) : topographic name for someone who lived in a nook or hollow, from Old English and Middle English hale, dative of h(e)alh ‘nook’, ‘hollow’. In northern England the word often has a specialized meaning, denoting a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, typically one deposited in a bend. In southeastern England it often referred to a patch of dry land in a fen. In some cases the surname may be a habitational name from any of the several places in England named with this fossilized inflected form, which would originally have been preceded by a preposition, e.g. in the hale or at the hale.English : from a Middle English personal name derived from either of two Old English bynames, Hæle ‘hero’ or Hægel, which is probably akin to Germanic Hagano ‘hawthorn’ (see Hain 2).Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Céile (see McHale).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Halle.Robert Hale, who settled in Cambridge, MA, in 1632, was an ancestor of the revolutionary war patriot and spy Nathan Hale (1755–76) of CT. The common English surname was brought independently in the 17th century to VA and MD.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for the servant of a parish priest or parson, or a patronymic denoting the child of a parson, from the possessive case of Middle English persone, parsoun (see Parson).English : many early examples are found with prepositions (e.g. Ralph del Persones 1323); these are habitational names, with the omission of house, hence in effect occupational names for servants employed at the parson’s house.Irish : usually of English origin (see above), but sometimes a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Phearsain, which is of Highland Scottish origin (see McPherson).Members of an Irish family called Parsons wre twice created earl of Rosse, first in 1718 and again in 1806. They settled in Ireland c.1590, when two brothers, William and Laurence Parsons, were granted large estates. Birr Castle, Parsonstown, became the family seat. Samuel Holden Parsons, born Lyme, CT, in 1737 was a Connecticut legislator and revolutionary war officer. Theophilius Parsons (1750–1813) was born in Byfield, MA, and was chief justice of the MA supreme court (1806–13); his son, also Theophilius, was a professor at Harvard Law School (1848–1869).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Read 1.An early American bearer of the common British name was George Reed who emigrated from England in 1635 with his son, William, and settled in Woburn, MA, several years later. His grandson James (1722–1807), a revolutionary war soldier who distinguished himself at the battle of Bunker Hill, moved to Fitzwilliam, NH, and was one of the original NH proprietors.
Boy/Male
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi
Couregeous; Revolutionary; Drifting about; Revolution
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained.John Mifflin (born 1640) came to Delaware from Warminster, Wiltshire, England, in the 1670s. He is probably the same person as the John Mifflin, a Quaker, who built his home, ‘Fountain Green’, in Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, in 1679. His fourth-generation descendant Thomas Mifflin (1744–1800) was a member of the Continental Congress, a revolutionary soldier, and governor of PA.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived by a bush or hedge of hawthorn (Old English haguþorn, hægþorn, i.e. thorn used for making hedges and enclosures, Old English haga, (ge)hæg), or a habitational name from a place named with this word, such as Hawthorn in County Durham. In Scotland the surname originated in the Durham place name, and from Scotland it was taken to Ireland. This spelling is now found primarily in northern Ireland.The American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–64) was a direct descendant of Major William Hathorne, one of the English Puritans who settled in MA in 1630, and whose son John Hathorne was one of the judges in the Salem witchcraft trials. The writer’s father was a sea captain, as was his grandfather, the revolutionary war hero Daniel Hathorne (1731–96). The spelling of the surname was altered by the novelist.
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, and northern Irish
English, Scottish, and northern Irish : variant of Sand 1.Scottish : habitational name from Sands in Tulliallan in Fife.Comfort Sands, a revolutionary patriot born in 1748 at what is now Sands’ Point, Long Island, NY, was descended from James (Sandys) Sands (1622–95), who emigrated from Reading, Berkshire, England, to Plymouth, MA, and followed Anne Hutchinson to Westchester Co., NY, and subsequently RI. In 1661 he settled on Block Island, RI.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Old English clǣg ‘clay’, applied as a topographic name for someone who lived in an area of clay soil or as a metonymic occupational name for a worker in a clay pit (see Clayman).Americanized spelling of German Klee.The relatively common English name Clay had several American forebears in the 18th century. Henry Clay, born in Hanover, VA, in 1777, secretary of state for President John Quincy Adams, was descended from English ancestors who came to VA shortly after the founding of Jamestown. The revolutionary war officer Joseph Clay, also a member of the Continental Congress, was a native of Yorkshire, England, who emigrated to GA in 1760 and was a founder of the University of Georgia.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from either of two places, in Hertfordshire and Surrey, called Puttenham, from the genitive case of the Old English byname Putta, meaning ‘kite’ (the bird) + Old English hÄm ‘homestead’.John Putnam emigrated from England to Salem, MA, before 1641, and established a family that was still prominent in Massachusetts four generations later, including the revolutionary war soldier Israel Putnam (1718–90) and his cousin Rufus Putnam (1738–1824), also a soldier, one of the first settlers in OH.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : perhaps a deliberate alteration of Leatherhead, a habitational name from Leatherhead in Surrey, which is named from Celtic lēd ‘gray’ + rïd ‘ford’, or alternatively a habitational name from Lythwood in Shropshire, which is named from Old English hlið ‘slope’ + wudu ‘wood’.Zachariah Leatherwood, son of John Leatherwood, was born in Prince William Co., VA, about 1735. After the revolutionary war, he settled in Spartanburg Co., SC, with his second wife, Jane Calvert, and many of his fourteen children.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Hain 1–3.Isaac Hayne (1745–81) was an American revolutionary militia officer, executed by the British for breaking parole. He owned an ironworks and was manufacturing ammunition for the American forces when he was caught. His grandfather had emigrated from England to SC in about 1700.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic or metronymic from Eade.The inventor Thomas Alva Edison, born in 1847 in Milan, OH, came from a Canadian family first established in North America by John Edison, a loyalist during the American Revolution, who served under the British General Richard Howe and went into exile in Nova Scotia after the Revolutionary War.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Old Norse personal name Þorgils, composed of the name of the Norse god of thunder, Þorr + gils ‘hostage’, ‘pledge’. However, the inorganic initial s- is not easily explained; it may be the result of Old French influence.Edward Sturgis of England settled in Charlestown in 1634 and moved to Yarmouth, MA, in 1638. His descendants included a revolutionary war soldier and Cape Cod shipmaster, and a Massachusetts legislator.
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, and northern Irish
English, Scottish, and northern Irish : habitational name from any of several places in England and Scotland, variously spelled, that are named with Old English cald ‘cold’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’. Caldwell in North Yorkshire is one major source of the surname; Caldwell in Renfrewshire in Scotland another.Several Caldwells emigrated from Scotland to America by way of Ireland in the 18th century. James Caldwell (1734–81), son of settler John Caldwell, was born in Charlotte Co., VA, and was a militant clergyman during the revolutionary war. Andrew Caldwell, a Scottish farmer, emigrated to America in 1718 and started a family in Lancaster Co., PA. His son David was a Presbyterian clergyman and well-known revolutionary war patriot.
Surname or Lastname
English and Dutch
English and Dutch : from the personal name (Greek Nikolaos, from nikÄn ‘to conquer’ + laos ‘people’). Forms with -ch- are due to hypercorrection (compare Anthony). The name in various vernacular forms was popular among Christians throughout Europe in the Middle Ages, largely as a result of the fame of a 4th-century Lycian bishop, about whom a large number of legends grew up, and who was venerated in the Orthodox Church as well as the Catholic. In English-speaking countries, this surname is also found as an Americanized form of various Greek surnames such as Papanikolaou ‘(son of) Nicholas the priest’ and patronymics such as Nikolopoulos.The colonial official and revolutionary patriot Robert Carter Nicholas was from a prominent VA family on both sides. His father was a British navy surgeon who emigrated in about 1700 from Lancashire, England, to Williamsburg, VA.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a copse or thicket, Middle English s(c)hage, s(c)hawe (Old English sceaga), or a habitational name from any of the numerous minor places named with this word. The English surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century.Scottish and Irish : adopted as an English form of any of various Gaelic surnames derived from the personal name Sitheach ‘wolf’.Americanized form of some like-sounding Ashkenazic Jewish surname.Chinese : variant of Shao.Early American merchants and revolutionary patriots were Nathaniel Shaw (b. 1735 in New London, CT) and Samuel Shaw (b. 1754 in Boston).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the places so called, in southwestern Lancashire (now Merseyside), Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, and Devon, all of which are named from Old English prēost ‘priest’ + cot ‘cottage’, ‘dwelling’. The surname is most common in Lancashire, and so it seems likely that the first of these places is the most frequent source. It is also present in Ireland, being recorded there first in the 15th century.John Prescott of Standish, Lancaster, England, arrived in New England in 1640 and in 1643 was one of the first settlers of Lancaster, MA. His descendants include several prominent Americans of the revolutionary war, including Samuel Prescott, born in Concord, MA, in 1751, whose fame lies in completing the midnight ride of warning in 1775 after Paul Revere was captured.
EVOLUTIONARY ATTRACTOR
EVOLUTIONARY ATTRACTOR
Girl/Female
Tamil
Lovely
Girl/Female
Muslim
Learned. Wise.
Girl/Female
Muslim
Proper Name.
Girl/Female
Indian, Tamil
Gentle; Bright
Boy/Male
Tamil
Servant
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi
Goddess Parvati; Snow; Singer
Girl/Female
Hindu
Sabine
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Curious
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Beauty
Male
African
honor, worship; or, thunder.
EVOLUTIONARY ATTRACTOR
EVOLUTIONARY ATTRACTOR
EVOLUTIONARY ATTRACTOR
EVOLUTIONARY ATTRACTOR
EVOLUTIONARY ATTRACTOR
a.
Pertaining to, or involving, sans-culottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical.
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A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war.
a.
Pertaining to elocution.
a.
Relating to evolution; as, evolutionary discussions.
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A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
a.
Relating to evolution.
n.
One who, or that which, attracts.
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Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War; as, Continental money.
n.
A revolutionist.
n.
A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor. In popular usage, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary social scheme. See Communism, Fourierism, Saint-Simonianism, forms of socialism.
n.
The designation of a body of Maryland soldiers in the Revolutionary War, distinguished by a rich uniform.
n.
One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans.
n.
The delivery before an audience of something committed to memory, especially as an elocutionary exhibition; also, that which is so delivered.
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The state of being in revolution; revolutionary doctrines or principles.
a.
Of or pertaining to the Jacobins of France; revolutionary; of the nature of, or characterized by, Jacobinism.
a.
Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.
n.
One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.
n.
One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.
n.
One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.