evolution

Noun
  1. A process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) (synset 113486023)
    "the development of his ideas took many years"; "the evolution of Greek civilization"; "the slow development of her skill as a writer"
    is a type of: physical process, process - a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
    subtypes:
    • assibilation - the development of a consonant phoneme into a sibilant
    • deepening - a process of becoming deeper and more profound
    • growth - a progression from simpler to more complex forms
    • flowering, unfolding - a developmental process
    same as: development
  2. (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms (synset 113498226)
    referred to in: biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms
    associated with: scopes trial - a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school; Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversed
    is a type of: biological process, organic process - a process occurring in living organisms
    subtypes:
    • anamorphism, anamorphosis - the evolution of one type of organism from another by a long series of gradual changes
    • anthropogenesis, anthropogeny - the evolution or genesis of the human race
    • emergent evolution - the appearance of entirely new properties at certain critical stages in the course of evolution
    • macroevolution - evolution on a large scale extending over geologic era and resulting in the formation of new taxonomic groups
    • microevolution - evolution resulting from small specific genetic changes that can lead to a new subspecies
    • speciation - the evolution of a biological species
    same as: organic evolution, phylogenesis, phylogeny

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