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evolutionary

[ev-uh-loo-shuh-ner-ee, ee-vuh-] / ˌɛv əˈlu ʃəˌnɛr i, ˌi və- /
ADJECTIVE
pertaining to evolution or development
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“This is actually a big problem in evolutionary biology.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Despite its poor condition, the senior geosciences major spent two years carefully reconstructing the fossil and figuring out where it fits in the evolutionary history of dinosaurs.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

A chunk of bone discovered on a beach by a schoolgirl could be up to half a million years old, according to an evolutionary biologist.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

New research suggests that wheat domestication was shaped by an intense evolutionary struggle for light and space.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

But no one would seriously describe this evolutionary process as domestication, because birds and bats and other animal consumers don’t fulfill the other part of the definition: they don’t consciously grow plants.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond



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