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The objective of this paper is to investigate the role of the metaphor EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IS A JOURNEY in the text of its original appearance (Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species) and its later developments (texts by Richard Dawkins). An analysis of selected examples allows a conclusion that EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IS A JOURNEY is a theoryconstitutive metaphor for evolutionism. The paper also proposes an extended understanding of the whole concept of theory-constitutive metaphor.