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  • noun Plural form of evolver.

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Examples

  • Pioneering souls of the 21st century are exploring how to become creators, co-evolvers, universal humans.

    Barbara Marx Hubbard: Conscious Evolution and the Integration of Science and Spirituality Barbara Marx Hubbard 2010

  • In my opinion, there is somewhat of a Scopes monkey trial taking place in the “discussion” section of the entry in which people have divided themselves into creationists and evolutionists camps: Dave Winer is a creator vs. Dave Winer is one of many evolvers.

    Scripting News for 1/28/2007 « Scripting News Annex 2007

  • Because the mechanism for evolution has a partial identity with the subject of evolution, natural self-replicating evolvers can evolve their evolutionary strategies.

    Reality 1, Behe 0 - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • So far, no one has directly claimed that evolvers are units of selection.

    Units and Levels of Selection Lloyd, Elisabeth 2005

  • One might say that the species or lineages (Hull's evolvers) are the ultimate beneficiaries of the evolutionary process.

    Units and Levels of Selection Lloyd, Elisabeth 2005

  • Shravakas (listeners) and pratyekabuddhas (self-evolvers) are two types of practitioners of the Hinayana (Modest Vehicle) of the Buddha's teachings.

    Equalizing and Exchanging One's Attitudes about Self and Others Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche I 1983

  • Buddha had many disciples, among whom were the original circle of his five disciples, and then the listeners to the teachings (shravakas), the self-evolvers

    Explanation of The Foundation for Good Qualities ��� Session One: The Spiritual Master and a Precious Human Rebirth Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche I 1982

  • _These changing citizens, as they act upon and react to their surroundings and vary in their powers age by age, are the real evolvers of the conditions in which they dwell_; hence the citizen must not be omitted from our study if we are to understand city growth.

    Civics: as Applied Sociology Patrick Geddes 1893

  • SPY earnings estimates outlined for this year; higher costs to borrow on credit evolvers will ultimately get passed onto consumers on top of already elevated final product costs.

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  • Here the antecedent unity -- the productive and self-realizing idea -- strives, with partial success to re-emancipate itself from its product, and seeks once again to become 'idea': vainly indeed: for in order to this, it must be retrogressive, and it hath subjected itself to the fates, the evolvers of the endless thread -- to the stern necessity of progression.

    Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

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