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evolutionary
[ ev-uh-loo-shuh-ner-eeor, especially British, ee-vuh- ]
adjective
- pertaining to evolution or development; developmental:
the evolutionary origin of species.
- of, relating to, or in accordance with a theory of evolution, especially in biology.
- pertaining to or performing evolutions.
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Other Words From
- evo·lution·ari·ly adverb
- anti·evo·lution·ary adjective
- nonev·o·lution·ary adjective
- preev·o·lution·ary adjective
- proev·o·lution·ary adjective
- unev·o·lution·ary adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of evolutionary1
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Example Sentences
For his tireless assault on evolutionary biology and downsizing the deity to fit within science, I give Meyer second place.
To regain their relevancy, Democrats need to go back to their evolutionary roots.
It combines pickup techniques supposedly inspired by evolutionary psychology with self-help pseudoscience.
This change was relatively rapid in evolutionary terms, and a lot of diverse critters came out of it.
Anyone who takes pot shots at a lovely wading bird is a hopeless defective, in my view, an evolutionary mistake.
The creation doctrine is as old almost as thinking man; the evolutionary doctrine belongs in effect to our own generation.
With the scientific world, of course, its victory was speedy; the new doctrine was in line with recognized evolutionary teaching.
We, ourselves, scientists tell us, are the result of a long series of evolutionary development.
If anything the evolutionary deity is more objectionable than the older one.
The fossil record of the kangaroo rats is so scanty that one can but speculate on the evolutionary sequence.
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Related Words
- developmental
- metamorphic
- mutative
- transformative
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