| evolution | | |
| n. (process) | 1. development, evolution | a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage).; "the development of his ideas took many years"; "the evolution of Greek civilization"; "the slow development of her skill as a writer" |
| ~ physical process, process | a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states.; "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls" |
| ~ assibilation | the development of a consonant phoneme into a sibilant. |
| ~ deepening | a process of becoming deeper and more profound. |
| ~ growth | a progression from simpler to more complex forms.; "the growth of culture" |
| ~ unfolding, flowering | a developmental process.; "the flowering of antebellum culture" |
| n. (process) | 2. evolution, organic evolution, phylogenesis, phylogeny | (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms. |
| ~ scopes trial | a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school; Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversed. |
| ~ biological science, biology | the science that studies living organisms. |
| ~ anamorphism, anamorphosis | the evolution of one type of organism from another by a long series of gradual changes. |
| ~ anthropogenesis, anthropogeny | the evolution or genesis of the human race. |
| ~ emergent evolution | the appearance of entirely new properties at certain critical stages in the course of evolution. |
| ~ macroevolution | evolution on a large scale extending over geologic era and resulting in the formation of new taxonomic groups. |
| ~ microevolution | evolution resulting from small specific genetic changes that can lead to a new subspecies. |
| ~ biological process, organic process | a process occurring in living organisms. |
| ~ speciation | the evolution of a biological species. |
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