Definition of Evolution

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Evolution

The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.

A series of things unrolled or unfolded.

The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute.

The extraction of roots; -- the reverse of involution.

A prescribed movement of a body of troops, or a vessel or fleet; any movement designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver.

A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it; a gradual unfolding of successive phases of growth or development.

That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preexist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis.

That series of changes under natural law which involves continuous progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous in structure, and from the single and simple to the diverse and manifold in quality or function. The pocess is by some limited to organic beings; by others it is applied to the inorganic and the psychical. It is also applied to explain the existence and growth of institutions, manners, language, civilization, and every product of human activity. The agencies and laws of the process are variously explained by different philosophrs.

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Evolution Quotations

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Steven Wright

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill Gates

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Thomas A. Edison

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
Richard Dawkins

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
Richard Dawkins

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Albert Schweitzer

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
Milton Berle

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
Kurt Vonnegut

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
Jean Piaget

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.
John McCain

Evolution Translations

evolution in Afrikaans is evolusie, ontwikkeling
evolution in Danish is udvikling
evolution in Dutch is evolutie, ontwikkeling
evolution in Italian is evoluzione
evolution in Swedish is utveckling

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