evolution

[ˌevəˈluːʃn]

Definition:
1. The gradual development of something.
2. The gradual development of plants, animals, etc. over many years as they adapt to changes in their environment.

Use 'evolution' in a sentence:

1. Archaeological findings reveal the origin and evolution of the Chinese civilization, its glorious achievements and great contributions to the world civilization.
2. Consider Darwin's theory of evolution.
3. But with more than two million grey squirrels in the UK and just 150000 native reds, they could do with any advantage that evolution has given them.
4. the idea that we are the culmination of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution across trillions of galaxies.
5. Her long life comprised a series of evolutions.
6. We think about the evolution of bipedalism as one of first events that led hominids down the path to being human.
7. What is the first step in evolution?
8. It seems obvious that evolution should select for larger brains ．
9. Evolution has programmed humans to pay most attention to issues that will have an immediate impact.
10. The idea of irreversibility in evolution stuck and came to be known as "Dollo's law".
11. Evolution of mollusks proceeded at a uniform rate over time.
12. It's like biology: an ecosystem where microbes are promiscuously swapping genes and traits, evolution speeds up.
13. Evolution has repeatedly made this trade-off.
14. Things such as nostril size vary with temperature and humidity in ways that suggest evolution is at work.
15. But a loss for all who, like Darwin, delight in the sheer inventiveness of evolution.
16. Smartphone-based data collection comes at an appropriate time in the evolution of psychological science.
17. These atavistic traits provided an advantage and spread through the population, effectively reversing evolution.
18. The foodstuff environment has changed in a short time, but evolution has not, and there's a real mismatch now.
19. Fossil formations like the Burgess Shale show that evolution cannot always be thought of as a slow progression.
20. Can evolution evolve its own teleological purpose?
21. This is the basic problem of evolution.
22. His job is to study the evolution of species.
23. Hypotheses regarding dinosaurian and avian evolution are unusually diverse—and often at odds with one another.
24. That is the consequence of its endless evolution.
25. The lecturer on evolution had been going on for nearly two hours, then he started again, and said he: "Let me ask the evolutionist a question--if we had tails like a baboon, where are they?"
26. The development of the backboned animals is one of the most fascinating parts of the story of evolution.
27. As you know the evolution of any species is largely influenced by its interactions with other species.
28. Huxlay was an exponent of darwin's theory of evolution.
29. The researchers said the discovery would offer biological clues about the animal's evolution.
30. Take the evolution of the smart home, for example.
31. Some samples of the strain in China and Vietnam show its continuing evolution.
32. A heated debate has enlivened recent studies of evolution.
33. We naturally associate the name of Darwin with the doctrine of evolution.
34. I have moved from trying to model and understand the distribution and evolution of water vapour.
35. In the course of evolution, some birds have lost the power of flight.
36. Why does the fossil record not document the series of evolutionary changes during the evolution of animals?
37. We're dealing with probably the biggest missing link in what we know about human evolution.
38. It is better for the sake of evolution to allow creatures to go extinct.
39. It clearly shows Basilosaurus's evolution from land creatures.
40. Perhaps evolution provided human babies with curiosity and a natural drive to explain their worlds, and adult scientists simply make use of the same drive that served them as children ．
41. We are the products of evolution, and not just evolution that occurred billions of years ago.
42. The summer heat and humidity can intensify and evolution process.
43. This obliquity creates the terrestrial seasonality so important to the evolution and diversity of life.
44. Ethologists—specialists in animal behavior—are interested in evolution, so they define the term narrowly.
45. His long life comprised a series of evolutions.
46. Perhaps evolution provided human babies with curiosity and a natural drive to explain their worlds.
47. The keynote speech is about the evolution of the computer.
48. Consciousness or cerebration has been said to have emerged in the evolution of higher primates.
49. His lecture was about the evolution of man.
50. In effect, Parsons presents us with a beguilingly simple outline of social evolution.
51. It has passed through an interesting procedure of evolution.
52. In politics Britain has preferred evolution to revolution.
53. Are some of these differences biological and inborn, a result of evolution?
54. Such a perspective fundamentally changes our view of biological evolution.
55. Darwin eventually put forward a model of biological evolution.