Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to evolution; produced by or due to evolution; constituting evolution.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to evolution.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
evolution , coming about as a result of theprinciples ofevolution .
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Examples
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The second I deny, and reject all so-called evolutional ethics based upon it.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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The second I deny, and reject all so-called evolutional ethics based upon it.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896
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An evolutional regression occurs, where complex life is at a huge disadvantage, until even the simplest life disappears.
Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care? 2010
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My son is pretty independent and not overly communicative, so I was prepared for this to feel like part of an evolutional process.
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Faludi used a biomedical analogy -- the concept the ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny --- that the stages of development of a fetus recapitulate the evolutional stages from single celled micro-organism to fish to amphibian to reptile to hairy mammal.
Printing: Hillary Clinton-- Victim of the War on the Feminine, Just like the 9/11 Victims 2008
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Faludi used a biomedical analogy -- the concept the ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny --- that the stages of development of a fetus recapitulate the evolutional stages from single celled micro-organism to fish to amphibian to reptile to hairy mammal.
Hillary Clinton-- Victim of the War on the Feminine, Just like the 9/11 Victims 2008
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At some point in evolutional history, all the parts had a discussion because they all wanted to be Boss.
Don't Allow Invertebrate Dems In Congress to Insult You. They CAN Stop the War 2007
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The German zoologist, Ernst Haeckel, suggested, in this theory, the idea that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny means that as over the short time span of nine months, a fetus, in the womb, goes through ontogenetic phases of development, it recapitulates the stages of development we see as we go up the evolutional scale -- phylogenetically, that took billions of years to develop.
Printing: A Book Review; The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi 2007
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The evolutional orders,206 by which greater depth or shallowness is given to the battle line, are given by word of mouth by the enomotarch (or commander of the section), who plays the part of the herald, and they cannot be mistaken.
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The German zoologist, Ernst Haeckel, suggested, in this theory, the idea that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny means that as over the short time span of nine months, a fetus, in the womb, goes through ontogenetic phases of development, it recapitulates the stages of development we see as we go up the evolutional scale -- phylogenetically, that took billions of years to develop.
A Book Review; The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi 2007
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