Developed gradually

Usage examples of evolved.

Yet the humans who have evolved on the planet believe in their hearts that there are such things as gods, magic, cosmic purpose and million-to-one chances that crop up nine times out of ten.

The bacterial method of propulsion may well have evolved from an attack mechanism.

The vital issue for Dennett is that humans, and on this planet probably only humans, have evolved several stages beyond the observing-and-reacting that even quite advanced animals do.

According to these books, the result of having lived with a brain which we think we direct using a kind of tiller, but which actually is continually affected by cross-winds, occasional storms, rain and warm sun that provokes us into lazy days, is that we have evolved a series of memories with different flavours.

Or, each of us has a personal history which we explain internally by feelings attached to emotional memories, so we have evolved a series of memories with different flavours.

The steam engine had evolved to the pinnacle of its existence, and what displaced it was, in effect, a new species of engine altogether.

When the dinosaurs died, the mammals took over the planet, and some evolved into monkeys, then apes, then Stone Age people.

Third, domestication of many animals meant that European humans evolved immunity to the diseases which those animals carried and which, when they were introduced into the New World, devastated the population.

To cap it all, the practice evolved to adopt a certain tone when uttering proper names.

Once writing had evolved, however, two early forms of written literature may be singled out.

We saw earlier how the idea of Sheol had evolved during exile, and then into a rudimentary concept of heaven and hell, and how the Jews may have garnered the notion of a covenant with God from Zoroastrian sources picked up in Bablyon.

In this way, via repeated reincarnations, the soul evolved to the point where further reincarnations were no longer needed.

In this fashion, the Han gradually evolved a number of dominant ideas that amalgamated Confucianism into a state philosophy.

Because Byzantine art evolved so slowly it is virtually impossible to date.

Rome, and the very early chapel at Dura-Europos, on the Euphrates, show that even before Constantine, Christians had evolved certain visual traditions, possibly based on an ancient illustrated version of the Septuagint.