a) gradual directional change especially one leading to a more advanced or complex form; growth; development
There are some examples of cultural evolution in birds and monkeys, but it is our own species that really shows what cultural evolution can do.
Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
See Also: evolute, evolutional, evolutionarily, evolutionally, evolutionary, evolutionism, evolutionist, evolutionistic, evolutionistically, evolutive, evolutor, Evolutor, evoluture, evolvable, evolvableness, evolvability, evolve, evolvement, evolver, evolving, macroevolutional, macroevolutionary, macroevolutionism, macroevolutionist, microevolutional, microevolutionary, microevolutionism, microevolutionist
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