Synonyms for evolutionary
evo·lu·tion·a·ry

Princeton's WordNet

1. evolutionaryadjective

   of or relating to or produced by evolution

   "evolutionary biology"

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1. List of paraphrases for "evolutionary":

   evolving, rolling, evolutive, progressive, adaptive, evolution

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1. Professor Auke Ijspeert:

   It's a key animal from an evolutionary point of view, it's older than crocodiles and dinosaurs; it's an amphibian. So if you look at the modern salamander, its morphology and body shape is very close to the fossils of the first terrestrial vertebrates. So by studying the modern salamander we have a time window to the ancestors of all terrestrial vertebrates, including humans.

2. J. G. Ballard:

   Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?

3. Robin Dawson:

   Dinosaurs sit at an evolutionary point between birds, which are warm-blooded, and reptiles, which are cold-blooded, our results suggest that all major groups of dinosaurs had warmer body temperatures than their environment.

4. Tony Capra:

   We can't blame Neanderthals for Covid. That's a damaging response, and that's why I want to emphasize so much the social and environmental factors are the real things that people should be worrying about, that said, as a geneticist, I think it is important to know the evolutionary history of the genetic variants we find that do have effects on traits. The effects of Neanderthal DNA traits are detectable, but they're modest.

5. Zhang Hanwen:

   Remarkably for 30 million years, the entire first half of proboscidean evolution, only two of the eight groups evolved, most proboscideans over this time were nondescript herbivores ranging from the size of a pug to that of a boar. A few species got as big as a hippo, yet these lineages were evolutionary dead-ends. They all bore little resemblance to elephants.