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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

Among the evolutional attempts to subsume the course of history under general syntheses, perhaps the most important is that of Lamprecht, whose "kulturhistorische" attempt to discover and assign the determining causes.

From Evolution in Modern Thought by Weismann, August

Perhaps they are direct evolutional products, possibly psychic inheritances; but to such as have them no price is asked or penalty imposed.

From Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance by Sepharial

For the habit of writing backwards there are obvious evolutional reasons; and the requirements of Japanese calligraphy sufficiently explain why the artist pushes his brush or pencil instead of pulling it.

From Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation by Hearn, Lafcadio