evolution
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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 statessubtypes:
- 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 -
(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 organismsassociated 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 reversedis a type of: biological process, organic process - a process occurring in living organismssubtypes:
- 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
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