evolutionary
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌiː.vəˈl(j)uː.ʃən.ɹi/, /ˌɛv.əˈl(j)uː.ʃən.ɹi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.ɛɹ.i/, /ˌɛv.əˈluː.ʃən.ɛɹ.i//
Adjective
[edit]evolutionary (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the biological theory of evolution.
- The evolutionary history of marine mammals includes land-dwelling ancestors.
- 2013 March, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 4 January 2017, page 83:
- It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
- Having formal similarities to the biological theory of evolution.
- 1974 Dec., Richard R. Nelson, Sidney G. Winter, “Neoclassical vs. Evolutionary Theories of Economic Growth: Critique and Prospectus”, in The Economic Journal, volume 84, number 336, , →JSTOR, pages 886–905:
- The basic elements of an evolutionary growth theory are discussed in Section II.
Synonyms
[edit]Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- anti-evolutionary
- antievolutionary
- bioevolutionary
- coevolutionary
- co-evolutionary
- eco-evolutionary
- ecoevolutionary
- ecoevolutionary
- evilutionary
- evolutionarily
- evolutionary adaptation
- evolutionary adaptedness
- evolutionary altruism
- evolutionary analysis
- evolutionary anthropologist
- evolutionary anthropology
- evolutionary basis
- evolutionary behavior
- evolutionary behaviour
- evolutionary biologist
- evolutionary biology
- evolutionary cause
- evolutionary center
- evolutionary centre
- evolutionary change
- evolutionary cladist
- evolutionary cladistics
- evolutionary convergence
- evolutionary creation
- evolutionary creationism
- evolutionary creationist
- evolutionary descent
- evolutionary developmental biology
- evolutionary divergence
- evolutionary ecologist
- evolutionary ecology
- evolutionary embryologist
- evolutionary embryology
- evolutionary ethicist
- evolutionary ethics
- evolutionary ethologist
- evolutionary ethology
- evolutionary psychologist
- evolutionary psychology
- evolutionary radiation
- evolutionary reconstruction
- evolutionary relation
- evolutionary relationship
- evolutionary research
- evolutionary researcher
- evolutionary science
- evolutionary scientist
- evolutionary selection
- evolutionary speciation
- evolutionary species
- evolutionary stage
- evolutionary stasis
- evolutionary status
- evolutionary structure
- evolutionary synthesis
- evolutionary systematics
- evolutionary systematist
- evolutionary taxonomist
- evolutionary taxonomy
- evolutionary theoretician
- evolutionary theorist
- evolutionary theory
- evolutionary time
- evolutionary timeline
- evolutionary trap
- evolutionary tree
- evolutionary worldview
- macroevolutionary
- macro-evolutionary
- mesoevolutionary
- micro-evolutionary
- microevolutionary
- neuroevolutionary
- nonevolutionary
- non-evolutionary
- orthoevolutionary
- paleoevolutionary
- phyloevolutionary
- post-evolutionary
- postevolutionary
- preevolutionary
- pre-evolutionary
- proevolutionary
- pro-evolutionary
- protoevolutionary
- proto-evolutionary
- pseudo-evolutionary
- pseudoevolutionary
- socioevolutionary
- socio-evolutionary
- unevolutionary
Translations
[edit]of or relating to evolution
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