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Organic evolution

noun

(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms. Synonyms: evolution, phylogenesis, phylogeny.

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... his sixty-seventh year; a thin, dry, round-shouldered man, with bald occiput, straggling yellowish beard, and a face which recalled that of Darwin. The resemblance pleased him. Privately he accepted the theory of organic evolution, reconciling it with a very broad Anglicanism; in his public utterances he touched upon the Darwinian doctrine with a weary disdain. This contradiction involved no insincerity; Mr. Lashmar merely held in ...

— Our Friend the Charlatan • George Gissing

... reproduction is greatly slackened, evolution is greatly accelerated. The significance of sex, as Coulter puts it, "lies in the fact that it makes organic evolution more rapid and far more varied." It is scarcely necessary to emphasise that a highly important, and, indeed, essential aspect of this greater individuation is a higher survival value. The more complex and better equipped creature can meet and subdue difficulties and dangers to which the more ...

— Essays in War-Time - Further Studies In The Task Of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis

Words linked to "Organic evolution" : macroevolution, evolution, speciation, anamorphosis, biological process, Scopes trial, biology, emergent evolution, biological science, microevolution, organic process, anthropogeny, phylogeny, theory of organic evolution, phylogenesis, anamorphism, anthropogenesis