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evolutionary

Word definitions for evolutionary in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES the evolutionary scale (= the way in which animals have developed over time from simple ones to more complicated and more intelligent ones ) ▪ Birds are much lower on the evolutionary scale than dogs. COLLOCATIONS ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to or produced by evolution; "evolutionary biology"

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1810, from evolution + -ary .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or relating to evolution.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Evolutionary \Ev`o*lu"tion*a*ry\, a. Relating to evolution; as, evolutionary discussions.

Usage examples of evolutionary.

In answer he attempts to relate psychological patterns to evolutionary adaptive behavior.

I think most animal-righters are really arguing that the closer animals are to humans, biologically speaking - that is, evolutionary speaking -the more rights they should have.

To define a gene as a single cistron is good for some purposes, but for the purposes of evolutionary theory it needs to be enlarged.

For paleontologists, cynodonts are among the most fascinating of fossils because they provide the evolutionary link between reptiles and mammals.

Thus, on level 1, or A, we already find dissipative or self-organizing structures, holons with depth and span, creative emergence, increasing complexity, evolutionary development, differentiation, self-transcendence, teleological attractors, and so forth.

How the extreme complexities of both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, and the many, many functions they perform, impede an evolutionary solution.

By using morphological differences in the fossils of hominids to resolve contradictory faunal, stratigraphic, chemical, radiometric, and geomagnetic datings in harmony with a favored evolutionary sequence, paleoanthropologists have allowed their preconceptions to obscure other possibilities.

When these ages are adjusted to reflect reasonable faunal date ranges, the total evidence fails to exclusively support an evolutionary hypothesis.

He reached out and pushed aside the wings, moving them by their translucent membranes, fingers brushing the tiny fingerlets at the wingtips, recognizing in their touch some evolutionary connection with his own hands.

The foister will really promote his or her selfish evolutionary goals by deserting his or her mate and offspring.

But when real Spirit descends, it blasts to smithereens the mother archetype, the father archetype, and every other itty bitty finite archetypeit is coming from the other direction with the force of infinity, and not some merely past and finite evolutionary habit.

Botanists have plants whose passionate emotional lives can be monitored with He detectors, anthropologists have surviving ape-men, zoologists have extant dinosaurs, and evolutionary biologists have Biblical literalists snapping at their flanks.

Evolutionary Agents who had become public symbols of neoteny continued to be harassed.

They still contented themselves with the darkness and the corners of the empty world, nibbling on insects, eschewing any evolutionary innovations more spectacular than a new set of teeth.

These empirical regularities are mathematically derivable from universal principles of natural kinds and probabilistic geometry that may, through evolutionary internalization, tend to govern the behaviors of all sentient organisms.