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Philosophical argument against moral realism
An evolutionary debunking, sometimes referred to as an evolutionary debunking argument or evolutionary debunking thesis, is a philosophical argument which
Evolutionary_debunking
Study of evolution on morality or ethics
or debunk certain normative ethical theories or claims. For instance, some proponents of normative evolutionary ethics have argued that evolutionary theory
Evolutionary_ethics
Polish utilitarian philosopher
of both ethical egoism and utilitarianism. She and Singer use an evolutionary debunking argument to damage egoism but leave utilitarianism unscathed. In
Katarzyna_de_Lazari-Radek
Philosophical position
objective values". The evolutionary debunking argument suggests that because human psychology is primarily produced by evolutionary processes which do not
Moral_realism
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
British-New Zealand moral philosopher
defended what has come to be known as an "evolutionary debunking argument," according to which the evolutionary origin of human moral thinking might give
Richard_Joyce_(philosopher)
Australian moral philosopher (born 1946)
Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek (the co-author of the book) argue that evolutionary debunking arguments can be used to demonstrate that it is more rational to
Peter_Singer
Philosophical view that some states of mind, as commonly understood, do not exist
debunking argument against realist views of consciousness. This line of argument draws from other debunking arguments like the evolutionary debunking
Eliminative_materialism
Interdisciplinary field of study
social intuitionism and Greene's dual process theory, presented an "evolutionary debunking argument" suggesting that the normative force of our moral intuitions
Moral_psychology
1944 book by Karl Popper
(philosophy) On the Genealogy of Morality Genetic fallacy Essentialism Evolutionary debunking Situational logic Popper, Karl R. (1957). The Poverty of Historicism
The_Poverty_of_Historicism
American psychologist and white supremacist (born 1944)
antisemitic conspiracy theorist, white supremacist, and retired professor of evolutionary psychology at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). MacDonald
Kevin MacDonald (evolutionary psychologist)
Kevin_MacDonald_(evolutionary_psychologist)
Subdiscipline of biology regarding social behavior
societies, sociobiology is closely related to evolutionary anthropology, human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and sociology. Sociobiology investigates
Sociobiology
Approach to epistemological questions from a religious perspective
ISBN 9781009124119. Wilkins, John S.; Griffiths, Paul E. (2012). "Evolutionary debunking arguments in three domains". In Dawes, Gregory; Maclaurin, James
Religious_epistemology
American philosopher (1939–2022)
World Trade Center Towers Collapse?. Debunking 9/11 Debunking (2007) disputed at the rhetorical level the debunking of 9/11 conspiracy theories in such
David_Ray_Griffin
Clade of tetrapods
(including the dentary, articular, angular, surangular and others). In the evolutionary line of mammals these jaw bones other than the dentary were reduced in
Synapsida
Metaphilosophical study of epistemology
epistemic inquiry. Realism has its own challenges though. For example, evolutionary debunking arguments due to Sharon Street claim that people's epistemic attitudes
Metaepistemology
Branch of philosophy
Religious Belief", Springer, 2018. Wilkins, John; Griffiths, Paul, "Evolutionary debunking arguments in three domains: Fact, value, and religion", 2013. Yandell
Philosophy_of_religion
British evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)
Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator, noted atheist, and author. He is an emeritus
Richard_Dawkins
American astrologer, writer, and lecturer
a dozen astrological books and one of the founders of the school of Evolutionary Astrology, described by Forrest as "a form of psychological astrology
Steven_Forrest_(astrologer)
2001 book by Pascal Boyer
The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought is a 2001 book by cognitive anthropologist Pascal Boyer, in which the author discusses the evolutionary psychology
Religion_Explained
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
Psychology concept
structures or mental modules which have distinct, established, and evolutionarily developed functions. However, different definitions of "module" have
Modularity_of_mind
American-born British evolutionary psychologist (born 1962)
Satoshi Kanazawa (born 1962) is an American-born British evolutionary psychologist and writer. He is currently Reader in Management at the London School
Satoshi_Kanazawa
Species of great ape
humans (Homo sapiens). Bonobos and common chimpanzees show remarkable evolutionary stasis in musculoskeletal anatomy since their split from humans 8 million
Bonobo
Ecological theory concerning the selection of life history traits
The r/K selection theory is an evolutionary hypothesis examining the selection of traits in an organism that trade off between quantity and quality of
R/K_selection_theory
2023 Marvel Studios film
race to save the life of Rocket (Cooper) from his creator, the High Evolutionary (Iwuji), who is an alien scientist trying to perfect the universe. James
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Guardians_of_the_Galaxy_Vol._3
Order of crustaceans
that avoids the attention of predators. This mechanism could provide an evolutionary advantage; it only requires small changes to the cell in the eye and
Mantis_shrimp
American physician, scientist and author (born 1948)
who is notable for his role as a founder of the field of evolutionary medicine and evolutionary psychiatry. Nesse studied at Carleton College from 1966
Randolph_M._Nesse
Attempt to communicate with spirits
including Rita Goold and Alec Harris. Fortune telling fraud Harry Houdini § Debunking spiritualists List of channelers Psychic reading Lyttleton, George; Montegue
Séance
Many-legged arthropods with elongated bodies
resource for Chilopoda taxonomy. Archived 2017-11-06 at the Wayback Machine. Debunking of some centipede myths – American Tarantula Society Centipedes of Australia
Centipede
Italian-American economist and professor (born 1968)
is the author of various books, including The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking
Mariana_Mazzucato
Extinct carnivorous marsupial from Australasia
"Total evidence phylogeny and evolutionary timescale for Australian faunivorous marsupials (Dasyuromorphia)". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (1) 240. Bibcode:2017BMCEE
Thylacine
Video game seriеs
of Vaults where the inhabitants were exposed to the mutagenic Forced Evolutionary Virus (F.E.V.), creating posthuman and human/animal hybrid mutants including
Fallout_(franchise)
Scientific statement on races
The statement was written by leading scientists from the fields of evolutionary research, genetics and zoology, and was instrumental in influencing the
Jena_Declaration
1912 paleoanthropological hoax
been debunked before the reevaluations that had already taken place following the discoveries of Australopithecus and Homo erectus. The debunking of the
Piltdown_Man
Objections to evolution have been raised since evolutionary ideas came to prominence in the 19th century. When Charles Darwin published his 1859 book On
Objections_to_evolution
Biological system protecting an organism against disease
00622.2016. PMID 27909225. S2CID 3521624. Campbell JP, Turner JE (2018). "Debunking the Myth of Exercise-Induced Immune Suppression: Redefining the Impact
Immune_system
American philosopher of science
H. Clark (April 2006). "Essay Review: Debunking Adapting Minds *David J. Buller, Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for
David_Buller
Alleged extra-terrestrial beings
Table-turning Ufology Skepticism Cold reading Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Debunking Hoax James Randi Educational Foundation Magical thinking Prizes for evidence
Grey_alien
Extinct species of archaic human
palestinensis". By the middle of the century with the formulation of modern evolutionary synthesis, the common convention was to relegate all ancient human specimens
Homo_heidelbergensis
Popular myth about lesbian sexuality
Loulan in Lesbian Sex (1984), although her research was more focused on debunking the idea that lesbians are inherently less sexual people than others.
Lesbian_bed_death
1995 book by J. Philippe Rushton
agenda in social policy. The book grew out of Rushton's 1989 paper, "Evolutionary Biology and Heritable Traits (With Reference to Oriental-White-Black
Race,_Evolution,_and_Behavior
Canadian psychologist and author (1943–2012)
department at Western Ontario University as "thoroughly debunked." One of his many critics is the evolutionary biologist Joseph L. Graves, who has done extensive
J._Philippe_Rushton
Species of fish
Ichthyological Bulletin (70): 1–32. ISSN 0073-4381. Saruwatari, Toshiro (2007). "Debunking an urban legend of the Deep Sea: The Queen of the Abyss and her contribution
Triplewart_seadevil
Concept developed by Ufologists
Traveling Humans of the podcast It's Probably (not) Aliens, specifically debunking the concept as it was exposed on the episode "Time Travel" of the series
Time-traveler_UFO_hypothesis
Species of canine
"Re-Defining Canis etruscus (Canidae, Mammalia): A New Look into the Evolutionary History of Early Pleistocene Dogs Resulting from the Outstanding Fossil
African_wild_dog
English naturalist (1823–1913)
or more specifically of zoogeography. Wallace was one of the leading evolutionary thinkers of the 19th century, working on warning coloration in animals
Alfred_Russel_Wallace
1981 book by Stephen Jay Gould
Saturday Review (October 1981 p. 74). York, R., and B. Clark (2006). "Debunking as Positive Science". Monthly Review 57 (Feb.):315. American Library (1998)
The_Mismeasure_of_Man
Religious rejection of evolution
ago, in the space of six days. Much of creation geology is devoted to debunking the dating methods used in anthropology, geology, and planetary science
Rejection of evolution by religious groups
Rejection_of_evolution_by_religious_groups
2000 novel by Robert J. Sawyer
unsolicited emails to him. Further, he also opined that the skeptical community debunking his science-fiction novel was as ridiculous as Christian fundamentalists
Calculating_God
Publication of theory of natural selection
but he discussed his evolutionary ideas with several naturalists and carried out extensive research on his "hobby" of evolutionary work. He was writing
Publication of Darwin's theory
Publication_of_Darwin's_theory
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
People in files on Jeffrey Epstein
2003, Epstein donated $6.5 million to establish Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, which Nowak led. Epstein visited Harvard approximately 40 times
List of people named in the Epstein files
List_of_people_named_in_the_Epstein_files
Theory of human moral judgment
1086/687337. S2CID 151940241. Königs, Peter (April 3, 2018). "Two types of debunking arguments". Philosophical Psychology. 31 (3): 383–402. doi:10.1080/09515089
Dual process theory (moral psychology)
Dual_process_theory_(moral_psychology)
Christian evolutionary advocacy organization
as general audiences invested in biological science. BioLogos affirms evolutionary creation or theistic evolution as a core commitment. In his 2006 book
BioLogos
Phenomena not subject to the laws of nature
42–44. Ellis, B.J.; Bjorklund, D.F. (2004). Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development. Guilford Publications. p. 413. ISBN 9781593851033
Supernatural
Belief or behavior that is considered irrational or supernatural
Table-turning Ufology Skepticism Cold reading Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Debunking Hoax James Randi Educational Foundation Magical thinking Prizes for evidence
Superstition
British novelist, popular science writer, lecturer and broadcaster
migration in butterflies and applied principles of behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology to the migration of insects. This work was subsequently published
Robin_Baker_(biologist)
S2CID 149545381. c. Shermer, Michael (1 November 2008). "Five Fallacies of Grief: Debunking Psychological Stages". www.scientificamerican.com. Scientific American
List of common misconceptions about science, technology, and mathematics
List_of_common_misconceptions_about_science,_technology,_and_mathematics
Archaeological geneticist
and diet in humans. In January 2013 Warinner gave a TEDx talk titled "Debunking the Paleo Diet". Warinner joined the anthropology department at Harvard
Christina_Warinner
Theory of plural human origins
Roman Catholic Church (see Humani generis). With the development of the evolutionary paradigm of human origins, it has become widely held within the scientific
Polygenism
Extinct subfamily of reptiles
the lack of postcranial material that would be crucial in confirming or debunking these ideas. In the case of planocraniids, the presence of a rounded tail
Mekosuchinae
tendencies that are universal in the human brain and probably have deep evolutionary origins, such as natural inclinations towards anxiety and agent detection
List_of_conspiracy_theories
Anatomical structure in mammals
Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior. pp. 25–. ISBN 978-1-109-03595-7. Retrieved 27 January 2013. "The Truth About Hyaenas: debunking hyaena myths"
Glans
American psychologist and educator (1844–1924)
nineteenth century. His interests focused on human life span development and evolutionary theory. Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association
G._Stanley_Hall
Fad diet based on the presumed diet of Paleolithic humans
not live long enough to develop them. According to the model from the evolutionary discordance hypothesis, "many chronic diseases and degenerative conditions
Paleolithic_diet
British science writer
Hakim, Mohamad S. (14 February 2021). "SARS-CoV-2, Covid-19, and the debunking of conspiracy theories". Reviews in Medical Virology. 31 (6) e2222. doi:10
Nicholas_Wade
Opinions of English biologist and author
Richard Dawkins is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and writer. Dawkins himself has stated that his political views are left-leaning. However
Views_of_Richard_Dawkins
American experimental psychologist, neuroscientist, and moral philosopher
1086/687337. S2CID 151940241. Königs, Peter (April 3, 2018). "Two types of debunking arguments". Philosophical Psychology. 31 (3): 383–402. doi:10.1080/09515089
Joshua_Greene_(psychologist)
Species of spider
1080/00222937408680951. Retrieved 29 September 2013. Waldock, Julianne M. "Debunking an urban myth: The jumping spider Maratus cannot fly!". Australasian Arachnological
Maratus_volans
Race or ethnic-based discrimination
racism theories that had played a role in the Holocaust. It aimed both at debunking scientific racist theories, by popularizing modern knowledge concerning
Racism
Belief that nature originated through supernatural acts
Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 7–14. ISBN 9780393322385. Sweet & Feist 2007, p. 48, "Evolutionary Creation (or
Creationism
Principle in genetics
who first demonstrated it mathematically. Hardy's paper was focused on debunking the view that a dominant allele would automatically tend to increase in
Hardy–Weinberg_principle
Proposal that humans evolved certain features due to filling a semi-aquatic niche
evolution, postulates that the ancestors of modern humans took a divergent evolutionary pathway from the other great apes by becoming adapted to a more aquatic
Aquatic_ape_hypothesis
American astronomer and author (born 1943)
co-hosts the "Skeptic Check" episodes of Big Picture Science, focused on debunking pseudoscience, UFOs and practices such as astrology and dowsing. He has
Seth_Shostak
Management concept by Laurence J. Peter
chapter applies Peter's Principle to the entire human species at an evolutionary level and asks whether humanity can survive in the long run, or will
Peter_principle
2008 American propaganda film
of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating and debunking pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. He was interviewed for the film
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Expelled:_No_Intelligence_Allowed
Author of ancient astronaut books (1920–2010)
Papers An Astronomer's View of the Akkadian Seal by Tom van Flandern SitchinIsWrong, Michael S. Heiser's web site devoted to debunking Sitchin's claims
Zecharia_Sitchin
Condition of pregnancy food craving in Philippine culture
mentioned animals. Food craving Placek C (October 2017). "A test of four evolutionary hypotheses of pregnancy food cravings: evidence for the social bargaining
Lihi
2010 book by Cordelia Fine
Neurosexism Create Difference is a 2010 book by Cordelia Fine, written to debunk the idea that men and women are hardwired with different interests. The
Delusions_of_Gender
Species of hominid in the genus Homo
developed through art, combined with logic may have given early humans an evolutionary advantage. Evidence of humans engaging in musical activities predates
Human
2003 gift to the American financier and sex offender
several pages referring to his work on the evolution of language and evolutionary dynamics. Other contributors include Jean-Luc Brunel, James Cayne, Epstein's
Jeffrey Epstein's birthday book
Jeffrey_Epstein's_birthday_book
American paleoanthropologist
ISBN 978-0-230-10875-2. Ian Tattersall & Rob DeSalle (2011). Race?: Debunking a Scientific Myth. Texas: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1603444255
Ian_Tattersall
Bias confirming existing attitudes
Hernes, Sigbjørn (2019), "Affirmative citation bias in scientific myth debunking: A three-in-one case study", PLOS ONE, 14 (9) e0222213, Bibcode:2019PLoSO
Confirmation_bias
2012 book by Maximilian Holland
Holland, published in 2012. The work synthesizes the perspectives of evolutionary biology, psychology and sociocultural anthropology towards understanding
Social Bonding and Nurture Kinship
Social_Bonding_and_Nurture_Kinship
Practice of supernatural beings and forces
Others rejected the evolutionary framework entirely. Frazer's notion that magic had given way to religion as part of an evolutionary framework was later
Magic_(supernatural)
happiness and the pursuit of instant pleasure, the program explores the evolutionary role of happiness, and asks what happens in the brain, and possibly in
List of The Nature of Things episodes
List_of_The_Nature_of_Things_episodes
Pseudoscientific religious belief
p. 5A. Retrieved 2014-03-14. Prothero, Donald R. (2020). Weird Earth: Debunking Strange Ideas about Our Planet. Red Lightning Books. p. 49-52. doi:10
Geocentric_creationism
summarizes, "Rushton's work was heavily criticized by psychologists, evolutionary biologists, anthropologists, and geneticists for severe scientific inadequacies
Differential_K_theory
Software to detect AI-generated content
Retrieved 10 July 2023. Rizwan, Choudhury (October 15, 2023). "Expert debunks AI tool's claim that Israel's photo is fake". Interesting Engineering.
Artificial intelligence content detection
Artificial_intelligence_content_detection
Symbiotism between certain parasitic plants and fungi
"Plants parasitic on fungi: unearthing the fungi in myco-heterotrophs and debunking the 'saprophytic' plant myth". Mycologist. 19 (3): 113–122. doi:10
Myco-heterotrophy
Gotham City Police Department. He has a history of working with Batman, debunking a theory that the Caped Crusader was behind actions carried out by Parademons
Characters of the DC Extended Universe
Characters_of_the_DC_Extended_Universe
Creationist hypothesis
omphalos is Greek for "navel"), and all living creatures with fully formed evolutionary features, etc., and that, therefore, no empirical evidence about the
Omphalos_hypothesis
Island of Chile
pp. 17–19. ISBN 978-046-50-7698-7. Little, Becky (28 September 2016). "Debunking the Myth of the 'Real' Robinson Crusoe". National Geographic. Archived
Alejandro_Selkirk_Island
American psychologist (born 1959)
(2007) Judo in the U.S.: A Century of Dedication (2005) The New Japan: Debunking Seven Cultural Stereotypes (2002) The Handbook of Culture and Psychology
David_Matsumoto
Overview of the electronic medium's effects on large groups of consumers
serious the ramifications are and if these effects are more or less evolutionary with human communication. Current research is discovering that individuals
Social_aspects_of_television
(2006). "The Anti-naturalistic Fallacy: Evolutionary Moral Psychology and the Insistence of Brute Facts". Evolutionary Psychology. 4 (1) 147470490600400102:
List_of_fallacies
Mitochondrial DNA inheritance from father
doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800572. PMID 15329668. evolutionary biologist Andrew Merriwether quoted in Debunking a myth about sperm's DNA. (research indicates
Paternal_mtDNA_transmission
Magic intended to turn away harm or evil influences
Animism Augury Communitas Comparative religion Divination Divine language Evolutionary origin of religion Fetishism Great Spirit Henotheism Initiation Laying
Apotropaic_magic
German philosopher (1844–1900)
Nietzsche greatly. Nietzsche would ultimately argue the impossibility of an evolutionary explanation of the human aesthetic sense. In 1867 Nietzsche signed up
Friedrich_Nietzsche
EVOLUTIONARY DEBUNKING
EVOLUTIONARY DEBUNKING
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, 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
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 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 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
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
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 : 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.
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 (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 : 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
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 : 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 : 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.
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Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi
Couregeous; Revolutionary; Drifting about; Revolution
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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.
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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.
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Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Sanskrit
Mountain Born
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Tamil
Lord Shiva, Travelling on a bull
Female
Hebrew
(×’Ö¼Ö¸×œÖ´×™× Ö¸×”) Hebrew form of Greek HelénÄ“, possibly GALINA means "torch." Compare with another form of Galina.
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Hindu
Happy, Pleasant
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Tamil
Wind
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African, American, Australian, British, Christian, English, French, German, Jamaican, Latin
Dearly Loved; Wolf Cub; Young Wolf
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French Greek
One who brings victory.
Girl/Female
Hindu
Lively eyed
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Hindu, Indian
Gandharva
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English American Italian Latin
Timekeeper. Derived from the Roman clan name Horatius.
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One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.
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Pertaining to elocution.
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One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.
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The designation of a body of Maryland soldiers in the Revolutionary War, distinguished by a rich uniform.
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Pertaining to, or involving, sans-culottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical.
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Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War; as, Continental money.
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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.
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The state of being in revolution; revolutionary doctrines or principles.
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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.
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A revolutionist.
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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.
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A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
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Relating to evolution; as, evolutionary discussions.
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Of or pertaining to the Jacobins of France; revolutionary; of the nature of, or characterized by, Jacobinism.
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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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Relating to evolution.
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Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.
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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.