evolutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌiː.vəˈl(j)uː.ʃən.ɹi/
ipa: /ˌɛv.əˈl(j)uː.ʃən.ɹi/
ipa: /ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.ɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˌɛv.əˈluː.ʃən.ɛɹ.i/
Etymology: From evolution + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: The evolutionary history of marine mammals includes land-dwelling ancestors.
text: 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.
ref: 2013 March 24, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2017, page 83:
glosses: Of or relating to the biological theory of evolution.
examples: text: The basic elements of an evolutionary growth theory are discussed in Section II.
ref: 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:
glosses: Having formal similarities to the biological theory of evolution.
Synonyms: evolutional
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