evolutionary
Americanadjective
-
pertaining to evolution or development; developmental.
the evolutionary origin of species.
-
of, relating to, or in accordance with a theory of evolution, especially in biology.
-
pertaining to or performing evolutions.
Other Word Forms
- antievolutionary adjective
- evolutionarily adverb
- nonevolutionary adjective
- preevolutionary adjective
- proevolutionary adjective
- unevolutionary adjective
Etymology
Origin of evolutionary
Example Sentences
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To reconstruct this evolutionary history, the team relied on a statistical computer model.
From Science Daily
Most people living today have some residual fragments of DNA from our ancient evolutionary cousins.
From Barron's
His research ranged from the evolutionary dimension of human altruism to the logic of deceit and self-deception.
This similarity has strengthened the proposed evolutionary link between viruses and complex cells.
From Science Daily
After narrowing the data to several thousand species, the researchers placed the enzyme sequences onto an evolutionary tree of life.
From Science Daily
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