# evolutionary
## English
### Etymology

From evolution +‎ -ary.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˌiː.vəˈl(j)uː.ʃən.ɹi/, /ˌɛv.əˈl(j)uː.ʃən.ɹi/
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* (US) IPA: /ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.ɛɹ.i/, /ˌɛv.əˈluː.ʃən.ɛɹ.i//
** Audio (US):(file)

### Adjective

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, 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, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 886–905:The basic elements of an evolutionary growth theory are discussed in Section II.

#### Synonyms

* evolutional

#### Antonyms

* nonevolutional, non-evolutional
* nonevolutionary, non-evolutionary

#### Derived terms

* antievolutionary
* anti-evolutionary
* bioevolutionary
* co-evolutionary
* coevolutionary
* ecoevolutionary
* eco-evolutionary
* 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 genetics
* 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
* postevolutionary
* post-evolutionary
* preevolutionary
* pre-evolutionary
* pro-evolutionary
* proevolutionary
* protoevolutionary
* proto-evolutionary
* pseudo-evolutionary
* pseudoevolutionary
* socio-evolutionary
* socioevolutionary
* unevolutionary