adjective
Etymology
Origin of evolutive
First recorded in 1870–75; evolut(ion) + -ive
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“We are too different; the fruit of two diverse evolutive tracks...plants could be aliens for us,” he said.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 4, 2015
In theory, an evolutive process could produce this process but the increase of the complexity is so huge that it is difficult to believe that this could be produced without specialized hardware.
From The Brain, A Decoded Enigma by Dorin Teodor Moisa
A fixed amount of "evolutive force" is given, to begin with.
From Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Asa Gray
As is usual when any part of an organism is undergoing rapid evolutive changes, this nervous progress is accompanied with some instability.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
In the first edition of "First Principles" an evolutive change in anything was described as the passage of it from a state of indefinite incoherent homogeneity to a definite coherent heterogeneity.
From Memories and Studies by Henry James
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