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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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In recent decades, scientists have increasingly sought to classify organisms according to genuine evolutionary groups, or clades, that contain a common ancestor and all of its descendants.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

Dr. Towle argues that moving Australopithecus and Paranthropus species into Homo could create a more consistent picture of human evolutionary history.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

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

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

Yet, culturally speaking, today men with big butts are considered less desirable than a man with a potbelly, which is no doubt wrong from an evolutionary point of view.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan



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