Synonyms for evolution
ˌɛv əˈlu ʃən; esp. Brit. ˌi və-evo·lu·tion

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1. evolutionnoun

   Antonyms:
   revolution

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1. development, evolutionnoun

   a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)

   "the development of his ideas took many years"; "the evolution of Greek civilization"; "the slow development of her skill as a writer"

   Synonyms:
   phylogenesis, ontogenesis, growth, developing, phylogeny, growing, organic evolution, exploitation, ontogeny, maturation, development

   Antonyms:
   devolution, degeneration

2. evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny, phylogenesisnoun

   (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms

   Synonyms:
   phylogeny, organic evolution, phylogenesis, development

   Antonyms:
   degeneration, devolution

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1. evolutionnoun

   Synonyms:
   evolving, unfolding, expansion, evolvement

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1. evolutionnoun

   Synonyms:
   development, unfoldment, evolvement, unfolding

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1. List of paraphrases for "evolution":

   developments, evolving, development, changing, change, evolución, trend, changes, 'évolution, évolution, progression, trends, progress, shift, evolutionary

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1. Joel Brennan:

   Details about the continuing evolution of this project will require further review and evaluation by our team.

2. Ted Kennedy:

   Robert Bork America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids and school children could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists would be censured at the whim of government.

3. Carol Swayze:

   We’re voting for a president who’s really in a lot of ways a manager, i think for a lot of us, the issue of sanctity of life was paramount. … We felt like Trump was very honest about his evolution in his understanding of that issue.

4. Bob Bejan:

   I think we've moved about two years of evolution in this medium in about eight weeks, we would have never in the event space accelerated [ at this rate ]... if things would have just been going on normally.

5. Armand Leroi:

   We will be able to reconstruct the history of art and develop a mathematical theory of its evolution, just as scientists have done for the history of life.