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evolutionary

[ev-uh-loo-shuh-ner-ee, ee-vuh-] / ˌɛv əˈlu ʃəˌnɛr i, ˌi və- /
ADJECTIVE
pertaining to evolution or development
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As a result, there may be less evolutionary pressure favoring traits that help older females produce especially fit offspring.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

Although the phenomenon is common throughout the animal kingdom, scientists are still working to understand the biological processes underlying it and why it has persisted over evolutionary history.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

For more than six decades, evolutionary biologists have debated whether an unusual genetic system shared by ants, bees and wasps helped drive one of nature's most sophisticated forms of social organization: eusociality.

From Science Daily Aug. 15, 2026

The idea became highly influential in evolutionary biology and eventually appeared widely in biology textbooks.

From Science Daily Aug. 15, 2026

In biology there is a principle of powerful if imperfect applicability called recapitulation: in our individual embryonic development we retrace the evolutionary history of the species.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan



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