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evolution

Definition for evolution

noun as in development, progress

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This new discovery turns that idea on its head and deepens the debate over one of biology's central mysteries: how and why genome size changes during the evolution of life.

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He continued, "The findings demonstrate that the interplay among inorganic and organic compounds played crucial roles in Earth's environmental changes, deepening our understanding of the evolution of Earth's oxygen and hence the life on it."

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Few are aware, though, of the place of the commodity economy in the evolution of American capitalism.

This transcendent — and at times terrifying — account of that evolution enriches that understanding.

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Jordan understood the danger of a common identity versus free will, and how the barriers of a state-sanctioned identity are both disastrous and dangerous to humanity’s evolution.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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