| evolution definitions |
| # | Definition | Sets |
| 1 | change over time | 115 sets |
| 2 | change in a kind of organism over time; process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms | 61 sets |
| 3 | a theory that explains how random changes in genetic material and competition for scarce resources cause species to change gradually | 47 sets |
| 4 | the gradual change in a species over time | 44 sets |
| 5 | a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | 43 sets |
| 6 | the gradual change in a species over time. | 25 sets |
| 7 | descent with modification | 21 sets |
| 8 | the scientific theory that humans evolved over vast periods of time | 20 sets |
| 9 | the process by which species gradually change over time | 20 sets |
| 10 | the changes that take place as something evolves | 18 sets |
| 11 | (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms | 16 sets |
| 12 | change in a kind of organism over time | 15 sets |
| 13 | the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms | 14 sets |
| 14 | generation-to-generation change in the proportion of different inherited genes in a population that account for all of the changes that have transformed life over an immense time | 13 sets |
| 15 | change over time; process by which modern organisms descended from ancient organisms | 13 sets |
| 16 | any process of formation or growth; development | 13 sets |
| 17 | gradual change in a species through adaptations over time | 12 sets |
| 18 | a theory that explains how random changes in genetic material and competition for scarce resources cause species to change gradually. | 12 sets |
| 19 | any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane. | 11 sets |
| 20 | change in the inherited traits of species over time | 10 sets |
| 21 | n. development or growth. | 10 sets |
| 22 | the change in the physical and genetic characterisitics of a species over time | 10 sets |
| 23 | the gradual change in a species through adaptations over time | 10 sets |
| 24 | the process in which inherited characteristics within a population change over generations such that new species sometimes arise | 9 sets |
| 25 | the change in living things over time | 9 sets |
| 26 | the process by which all the different kinds of living things have changed over time | 8 sets |
| 27 | generally, in biology, the process of change by which new species develop from preexisting species over time; at the genetic level, the process in which inherited characteristics within populations change over time; the process defined by darwin as "descent with modification" | 8 sets |
| 28 | change in the genetic characteristics of a population from one generation to the next | 8 sets |
| 29 | change in species over time | 8 sets |
| 30 | n. any process of formation or growth | 7 sets |
| 31 | change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift. | 7 sets |
| 32 | (noun) the changes that take place over time as something evolves. | 7 sets |
| 33 | change in the inherited characteristics of species over generations | 7 sets |
| 34 | development or growth. | 7 sets |
| 35 | the change in genetic composition of a population over successive generations, which may be caused by natural selection, inbreeding, hybridization, or mutation. | 7 sets |
| 36 | the gradual process of biological change that occurs in a species as it adapts to its environment | 7 sets |
| 37 | change in inherited characteristics over time | 6 sets |
| 38 | change in a kind of organism over time; process by which modern organism have descended from ancient organisms | 6 sets |
| 39 | a change over time | 6 sets |
| 40 | any process of formation or growth | 6 sets |
