evolutionary

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 10.95 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of or relating to the biological theory of evolution.

   The evolutionary history of marine mammals includes land-dwelling ancestors.

2. adjective Having formal similarities to the biological theory of evolution.

Similar words

evolutive phased rolling flexible dynamic variable transformative transformational developments ever-changing

Often followed by

process theory biology history change development and processes perspective psychology

Word family

evolution evolutionist evolutionists evolve evolved evolves evolving