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“Offering more flavors of golf is tapping into evolutional demands,” Joe Beditz, the longtime president and chief executive of the National Golf Foundation, said.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2021

"He wants to be good, but is he being good because he is good, or is he doing it for other people? Is there a reason to be good aside from the primal evolutional instinct?"

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2015

I have not the slightest sympathy with most of his ideas; they seem to me misinterpretations of evolutional teachings; and if not misinterpretations, they are simply undeveloped and ill-balanced thinking.

From Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn by Hearn, Lafcadio

If such evolutional spurts are to be deemed degenerative, the fate of the four-leaved clover is sealed.

From Why Worry? by Walton, George Lincoln

Thus in the end of the 17th century the seed was sown which has at intervals brought forth recurrent crops of evolutional hypotheses, based, more or less completely, on general reasonings.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various