Evolution

Noun

 * 1)  gradual directional change especially one leading to a more advanced or complex form; growth; development
 * 2) * 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene:
 * There are some examples of cultural evolution in birds and monkeys, but it is our own species that really shows what cultural evolution can do.
 * 1) * 2005, Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth:
 * Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
 * 1)  The change in the genetic composition of a population over successive generations.
 * 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene:
 * [Some books have] made the erroneous assumption that the important thing in evolution is the good of the species (or the group) rather than the good of the individual (or the gene).
 * 1)  The extraction of a root from a quantity.
 * 2)  One of a series of ordered movements.

Antonyms

 * revolution

Derived terms

 * biological evolution
 * coevolution, co-evolution
 * cosmic evolution
 * cultural evolution
 * emergent evolution
 * evolution denial
 * evolution denier


 * genetic evolution
 * macroevolution
 * microevolution
 * organic evolution
 * planetary evolution
 * social evolution
 * stellar evolution

Related terms

 * evolute
 * evolutional
 * evolutionarily
 * evolutionally
 * evolutionary
 * evolutionism
 * evolutionist
 * evolutionistic
 * evolutionistically
 * evolutive
 * evolutor, Evolutor
 * evoluture
 * evolvable
 * evolvableness


 * evolvability
 * evolve
 * evolvement
 * evolver
 * evolving
 * macroevolutional
 * macroevolutionary
 * macroevolutionism
 * macroevolutionist
 * microevolutional
 * microevolutionary
 * microevolutionism
 * microevolutionist

Adjectives for Evolution
regressive; rapid; uninterrupted; accelerated; lingual; mental; inevitable; intricate; uncertain;  social;  orderly;  pious; masterly; creative; deliberate; mystic; eternal; cosmic; daring; terrestrial.

Thesaurus
addition, advance, approximation, beautification, change, developing, development, differentiation, division, elaboration, embellishment, equation, evolvement, evolving, extrapolation, flowering, formation, growing, growth, integration, interpolation, inversion, involution, maturation, multiplication, notation, perfection, phylogeny, practice, production, progress, progression, proportion, reduction, refinement, ripening, seasoning, subtraction, transformation, unfolding, upgrowth

Etymology
From evolutio:, from evolutus:, perfect passive participle of evolvo:, from e:, short form of ex:, + volvo:.

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 * Bengali: বিবর্তন
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 * Latin: evolutio vitae
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 * Russian: извлечение корня


 * Russian: перестроение,, передвижение,


 * : 진화 (進化) (jinhwa)
 * : evolução
 * : evolución
 * : ebolusyon
 * : ebolusyon

Noun

 * 1) evolution; development
 * 2)  evolution

Related terms

 * evolutionär