social evolution

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“The time span is insignificant on a geological scale,” says Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo, an archaeologist at the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution who was not involved with the study.

From Science Magazine

The justices have the mandate to help our democracy wrestle with never-imagined cultural change and social evolution.

From Washington Post

But at this stage in our social evolution it seems unfair to ask that of most any novel.

From Los Angeles Times

But on matters of social evolution, they’ve compiled a remarkable record: They’ve never been vindicated by history.

From Seattle Times

Yet Lewis’s Babbitt is, finally, a man we care about — a character rather than a caricature — one of a small group of American fictional creations who, in the early years of the 20th century, stand in their very different ways as landmarks in the story of the social evolution of our country: Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, Wharton’s Lily Bart, Booth Tarkington’s Alice Adams, with Gatsby on the horizon.

From New York Times