Evolution

What do we mean by evolution?

A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form. noun

A result of this process; a development. noun

Change in the genetic composition of a population during successive generations, often resulting in the development of new species. The mechanisms of evolution include natural selection acting on the genetic variation among individuals, mutation, migration, and genetic drift. noun

The historical development of a related group of organisms; phylogeny. noun

Change in the structure, chemical composition, or dynamical properties of a celestial object or system such as a planetary system, star, or galaxy. Evolution often changes the observable or measurable characteristics of the object or system. noun

A movement that is part of a set of ordered movements. noun

The extraction of a root of a quantity. noun

In ancestral development or phylogeny, the doctrine or opinion that the specific constitution or architecture which a germ-cell is held to possess at the beginning of its development, and to which the organization of the being that is generated from it is attributed, preexisted in the germ-cells of preceding generations. In the extreme form in which it was held by the embryologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it is the doctrine that since individual development is and always has been the unfolding of preexisting structure, each successive organism has existed, as such, from the beginning, in the germ-cells of its first ancestor, and in those of all successive ancestors, so that it is not the actual modem organism, but only its visibility or perceptibility by sense that is new. The modifications of this doctrine by more modern embryologists, who have sought to make it consistent with the progress of biological science, are too subtile and refined for concise statement. noun

In biology, the doctrine or opinion, accepted as an established truth by all recent biologists, that all living beings have come into existence, in course of nature, by uninterrupted descent, without break of continuity, from a few ancient and simple forms of life, or from one. noun

The act or process of unfolding, or the state of being unfolded; an opening out or unrolling. noun

Hence The process of evolving or becoming developed; an unfolding or growth from, or as if from, a germ or latent state, or from a plan; development: as, the evolution of history or of a dramatic plot. noun

Specifically— In biology: The actual formation of a part or of the whole of an organism which previously existed only as a germ or rudiment; ordinary natural growth, as of living creatures, from the germinal or embryonic to the adult or perfect state: as, the evolution of an animal from the ovum, or of a plant from the seed; the evolution of the blossom from the bud, or of the fruit from the flower; the evolution of the butterfly from the caterpillar; the evolution of the brain from primitive cerebral vesicles, or of the lungs from an offshoot of the intestine. noun

The release, emergence, or exclusion of an animal or a plant, or of some stage or part thereof, from any covering which contained it: as, the evolution of spores from an encysted animalcule; the evolution of a moth from the cocoon, of an insect from the wood or mud in which it lived as a larva, of a chick from the egg-shell which contained it as an embryo. noun

Descent or derivation, as of offspring from parents; the actual result of generation or procreation. As a fact, this evolution is not open to question. As a doctrine or theory of generation, it is susceptible of different interpretations. In one view, the germ actually preëxists in one or the other parent, and is simply unfolded or expanded, but not actually formed, in the act of procreation. (See ovulist, spermatist.) This view is now generally abandoned, the current opinion being that each parent furnishes materials for or the substance of the germ, whose evolution results from the union of such elements. See epigenesis. noun

The fact or the doctrine of the derivation or descent, with modification, of all existing species, genera, orders, classes, etc., of animals and plants, from a few simple forms of life, if not from one; the doctrine of derivation; evolutionism. (See Darwinism.) In this sense, evolution is opposed to creationism, or the view that all living things have been created at some time substantially as they now exist. Modern evolutionary theories, however, are less concerned with the problem of the origination of life than with questions of the ways and means by which living organisms have assumed their actual characters or forms. Phylogenetic evolution insists upon the direct derivation of all forms of life from other antecedent forms, in no other way than as, in ontogeny, offspring are derived from parents, and consequently grades all actual affinities according to propinquity or remoteness of genetic succession. It presumes that, as a rule, such derivation or descent, with modification, is from the more simple to the more complex forms, from low to high in organization, and from the more generalized to the more specialized in structure and function; but it also recognizes retrograde development, degeneration or degradation. The doctrine is now accepted by most biologists as a conception which most nearly coincides with the ascertained facts in the case, and which best explains observed facts, though it is held with many shades of individual opinion in this or that particular. See natural selection, under selection. noun

In general, the passage from unorganized simplicity to organized complexity (that is, to a nicer and more elaborate arrangement for reaching definite ends), this process being regarded as of the nature of a growth. Thus, the development of planetary bodies from nebular or gaseous matter, and the history of the development of an individual plant or animal, or of society, are examples of evolution. noun

Continuous succession; serial development. noun

In mathematics: In geometry, the unfolding or opening of a curve, and making it describe an evolvent. noun

A change of position.

An unfolding.

Process of development.

How your pokemon change at certain levels! Urban Dictionary

The theory that life forms change over time that is now being more widely accepted as the Law of Evolution. For those idiots out there who argue with it on accounts of "But why are there still apes then?" or "Do you have any idea how unlikely it was for a single cell to evolve, our entire world too?" you can easily go on believing that we humans were created by a god to be the dominant species on Earth, or you can face the fact that sooner or later a new type of human will emerge.(As long as we don't screw the planet up too badly before.) Also; the chances? Not very high, but considering the fact that there is a chance and that it has happened don't you think that it probably already has? And will? Countless times? But then again why the hell should we humans care, we only live 80 years or so. Urban Dictionary

Any change in an organism or population, there is no such thing as good or bad evolution. Urban Dictionary

1. Gradual change in life over millions of years, confirmed by both genetics and fossils. Anyone who's seen the evidence and still denies it likely has religious motivations. 2. Something that is clearly going downhill in the Bush family. Urban Dictionary

The general idea of evolution is that if a million monkeys bang a million monkeys they’d eventually produce a Shakespear. Urban Dictionary

A term describing the creation of harmful fumes while using the fireplace during the night. Urban Dictionary

Evolution is just a theory. What I don't get is how people can say it makes no sence that organisms are always evolving. There are examples of evolution all around us. Look at insects and farmers. Say a farmer is growing carrots, and there is a species of carrot eating insects that could potentially ruin his crop, what does the farmer do? The farmers sprays his crops with pesticides to kill these insects. But, these farmers have noticed that the exact same pesiticides they've used in previous years to kill the exact same insects are no longer working. Why? Because scientists have found out these insects are evolving to form a resistance to these pesticides. This is why every year new, stronger pesticides have to be created for crops(such as carrots). Urban Dictionary

There is no such thing as evolution, just a list of creatures that Chuck Norris has allowed to live. Urban Dictionary

Something that "$LAYER" and other religous people continue to deny in incredibly lame fashion. Urban Dictionary

When evolve is too simple minded of a word so people of a higher consciousness and those of a higher intellect use Evolute. Urban Dictionary

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Adjectives that are often used to describe evolution:
human, social, biological, cultural, historical, organic, natural, gradual, political, rapid, further, spiritual, economic, slow, creative, early, darwinian, stellar, molecular, progressive, future, cosmic, subsequent, temporal, convergent, mental, hominid, recent, continuous, structural, parallel, tectonic, technological, peaceful, intellectual, moral, genetic, industrial, term, emergent, adaptive, constant, primate, vertebrate, geological, dynamic, spontaneous, morphological, dynamical, independent, divergent, mammalian, historic, steady, literary, societal, thermal, anti, continued, linguistic, organizational, institutional, ongoing, conscious, universal, logical, microstructural, sociocultural, crustal, constitutional, theistic.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective evolution:
congresses, data.

Consonant match to evolution:
avolation, evolation.

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