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evolved

[ih-volv]

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verb (used with object)

to develop gradually: to evolve a scheme.

to give off or emit, as odors or vapors.

verb (used without object)

to come forth gradually into being; develop; undergo evolution: The whole idea evolved from a casual remark.

Biology. to develop by a process of evolution to a different adaptive state or condition: The human species evolved from an ancestor that was probably arboreal.

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Origin:
1635–45; < Latin ēvolvere to unroll, open, unfold, equivalent to ē- e- + volvere to roll, turn

Related forms

e·volv·a·ble, adjective

e·volve·ment, noun

e·volv·er, noun

non·e·volv·ing, adjective

self-e·volved, adjective

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self-e·volv·ing, adjective

un·e·volved, adjective

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Rationality evolved to win arguments, some scholars suggest, and flawed reasoning is itself an adaptation.

But it is also possible that breasts evolved as a way of signaling female quality and desirability, symmetrical or not.

This, too, evolved in response to industrial pollution.

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Rationality evolved to win arguments, some scholars suggest, and flawed reasoning is itself an adaptation.

But it is also possible that breasts evolved as a way of signaling female quality and desirability, symmetrical or not.

This, too, evolved in response to industrial pollution.

Earth's first animals may have evolved in salty lakes, not oceans, a new study suggests.

Human cooperation may have evolved out of a penchant for frequent warfare.

Humans' two-legged gait evolved to save energy, new research says.

It has evolved with shops galleries and restaurants.

Scientists believe the answer is that humans have evolved to enjoy fear.

It all began on that fateful day when one fish evolved legs.

We evolved in a local habitat, in families and small groups, and in villages.

In some evolved programs, this cell has split in two.

The discovery will help scientists understand how the glowing proteins evolved across the animal kingdom, the scientists say.

Our minds have evolved to handle these predictable bits of information with ease.

No species that exists today is more evolved or less evolved.

Those experiments evolved into separate garden rooms, each with its own theme and mood.

But whether the animal kingdom's kaleidoscope of eyes evolved.

It evolved because peahens preferred larger, more colorful tails.

Those patterns have evolved in many animals, perhaps even in birds.

Today it is not only animals and plants that are seen as having evolved over time, but also things that.

Flowers evolved many colors to woo and nectar, an additional lure.

By marrying psychology with archaeology, scientists are unearthing how thought evolved.

But many species survived and evolved into their modern descendants.

More specifically, they're messing up the perfectly-balanced, coordinated bipedal gait that our species evolved over.

Shot by shot, films have evolved to resemble the natural rhythms of the brain.

Today's music evolves from yesterday's music, which evolved from previous music in the past.

Al-Qaeda has evolved from a single group to an amorphous movement.

Hummingbirds and honeycreepers evolved long beaks to reach nectar.

She argues that over time the human brain evolved to feel social pain and pleasure.

Orcas have evolved complex culture: a suite of behaviors animals learn from one another.

The practice started as a joke, but has evolved into a booming cottage.

Imagine if, as a cosmic joke, humans have gradually evolved to leave many of us doubting evolution.

Fifty years later, that basic idea has evolved into a hot concept in education: adaptive learning.

Science has also evolved in this way, using individual contributions subject to peer review.

Newly evolved earthworms found at old mining sites eat toxic waste and could help cleanse polluted industrial land.

Now hear this: early mammal fossil shows how sensitive ear bones evolved.

The new studies give insight into how and when such traits evolved.

It's funny thinking about how comics have evolved for different audiences.

One of the attackers' main tools is malicious software, known as malware, which has steadily evolved in recent years.

Kuehn says the motives for interference in the work of law-clinic faculty members have evolved over time.

They have evolved because common bacterial infections developed a resistance to antibiotics.

Sponges evolved in shallow ocean basins, because the deeper seas did not yet contain oxygen, a necessity for almost all life.

Cold-weather noses may function differently from those that evolved in hot and humid climates.

And since they evolved from small ancestors, that makes it possible that the smaller dinosaurs were also endotherms.

Given how weird sloths are, it seemed possible they may have evolved a different way of moving from other mammals.

Rather than exploring how art has evolved over the.

Brooklyn's core curriculum has evolved over decades.

Ecosystems will find themselves subject to climates far removed from those they evolved in, endangering many species.

He says silk production was long thought to have evolved from glands found on the legs of early spiders.

After a successful birth, opting not to breast-feed may trigger evolved mourning behaviors.

After many iterations, the robots had evolved effective movement patterns and were able to slither rapidly towards the goal.

They have evolved to every extreme of the spectrum, from the hot pink of flamingos.

I'll showcase how a couple of my syllabuses have evolved over the years, including their revised versions.

The paradox is that the individual's evolved desire not to age is opposed by another evolutionary force: the disposable soma.

But a parasite has evolved a way to use her own defenses against her.

One theory suggests that our eyes evolved this way.

In these animals, it seems that complex societies evolved in steps.

There were several plausible hypotheses for how the butterflies might have evolved.

His subsequent work on causes including dolphin-safe tuna evolved into community work.

For a start, the four collaborative species are unrelated, suggesting that a propensity for cohesion has evolved independently.

Clownfish have evolved an ingenious though slimy way to use stinging anemones for their own protection.

Ability suggests intelligence evolved to keep track of social interactions in large groups.

Purely mechanical toys evolved into electromechanical toys and gave birth to the digital toy revolution.

Her career started in the theater and evolved into being an.

Tools and techniques have evolved to provide this at a more reliable and cost effective manner.

Once a world of fantasy, the genre evolved to capture the terror of the everyday.

Most regularity in nature evolved for one of two reasons.

How biological hand-me-downs inherited from fish and tadpoles evolved into human maladies.

Another question raised by the findings is how and why acoelomorphs evolved in such fashion.

The study suggests that men's bodies evolved hormonal systems that helped them commit to their families.

The program's offerings have evolved to better serve an array of older students.

Alas, pinning down evolved relationships between fertility and health is tricky.

Scientists have found a previously unknown population of vampire moths that may have evolved from a.

Ice entombed our planet hundreds of millions of years ago, and complex animals evolved in the greenhouse heat wave that followed.

As the gold supply began to dwindle, new methods evolved for recovery.

He also suggested that bipedality evolved in tandem with a socioreproductive complex of behaviors, including monogamy.

The generalizations are many and have evolved over time.

The other sort of genes that have evolved rapidly are those involved in infectious disease.

Scientists had long thought that the lesser short-tailed bat evolved its walking preference independently.

Theory suggests wrinkling of wet digits evolved for a reason.

There are two main theories for how avian flight evolved.

One conclusion is that birds' light bones evolved not for the purpose of flight but for thermoregulation.

Through it all, he evolved from a committed teacher into a fantastically dedicated one.

Communication technology has evolved so rapidly that it has outpaced other sectors in recent years.

Previous work had suggested that the location of the braincase and nostrils had evolved together.

Nonetheless to say spiders haven't evolved is rediculous.

Nimmer, though, acknowledges that his position has evolved.

The ventromedial area is a primitive part of the cortex that appears to have evolved to help humans navigate social interactions.

To project ahead to imagined evolved beliefs on either of their parts and to suppose that that is what was meant is absurd.

Demand for lobsters, for example, has evolved in a curious way.

Creationists claim that life is so complex that it could not have evolved.

Like it or not, men and women evolved different kinds of violent minds.

Wilson thinks eusociality evolved as a group-level adaptation for out-competing other insect colonies for food:.

They evolved to take care of business quickly and decisively.

Whether the first birds evolved from arboreal or terrestrial ancestors is a matter of lively debate among palaeontologists.

The animals would have evolved over time and adapted themselves to their respective environmental conditions.

But our intractable brains evolved on a diet of campfire tales.

The field has evolved to deal with some important issues that have arisen lately.

Researchers engineer mice to see the world as humans do, provide clues to how primate vision evolved.

Inexplicably, the anvil became a pumpkin, and the contest of human power evolved into a battle between huge pressurized cannons.

It is an interesting suggestion, and it is one that plays into the question of how morality actually evolved.

Recent research with chimps provides support for theories of how language evolved in humans.

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

evolve

1640s, "to unfold, open out, expand," from L. evolvere "unroll," from ex- "out" + volvere "to roll" (see vulva). Related: Evolved; evolving.

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Science Dictionary

evolve

(ĭ-vŏlv') Pronunciation Key

To undergo biological evolution, as in the development of new species or new traits within a species.
To develop a characteristic through the process of evolution.
To undergo change and development, as the structures of the universe.

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"Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food, you have to be unnervingly close to it. To smell or hear it, you can risk being further off. But vision can rush through the fields and up the mountains, travel across time, country, and parsecs of outer space, and collect bushel baskets of information as it goes. Animals that hear high frequencies better than we do—bats and dolphins, for instance—seem to see richly with their ears, hearing geographically, but for us the world becomes most densely informative, most luscious, when we take it in through our eyes. It may even be that abstract thinking evolved from our eyes' elaborate struggle to make sense of what they saw. Seventy percent of the body's sense receptors cluster in the eyes, and it is mainly through seeing the world that we appraise and understand it. Lovers close their eyes when they kiss because, if they didn't, there would be too many visual distractions to notice and analyze."

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