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noun Sociology.

the gradual development of society and social forms, institutions, etc., usually through a series of peaceful stages.Compare revolution (def. 2).

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Using examples from past societies, the pair also rejects the popular idea that social evolution occurred in stages.
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Part of my work as the fool rushing in was to establish that all theories of social evolution must reflect the logic of multilevel selection.
I Have Come to Bury Ayn Rand - Issue 98: Mind|David Sloan Wilson|March 24, 2021|Nautilus
Still, “I think it’s a great building block for future studies to learn more broadly about mammalian social evolution,” she says.
These prehistoric rodents were social butterflies|Kat Eschner|November 3, 2020|Popular-Science
Human evolution has left men as deeply wired for emotional connections to children as women are.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST

He finished second in 2008 behind John McCain, and maintains a reservoir of good will among Republican social conservatives.
Can Huckabee Convert the GOP’s Moneymen?|Lloyd Green|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Where the force generating those threats is a widespread, self-sustaining, and virulent social movement?
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The TVA, a federally owned and chartered electric power provider, is a New Deal legacy just like Social Security.
Steve Scalise Shows There’s a Fine Line Between Confederate & Southern|Lloyd Green|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Social media forces us to not only be vulnerable for our partner but for the whole world.
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All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
To others the fierce desire for social justice obliterates all fear of a general catastrophe.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
And our views of poverty and social betterment, or what is possible and what is not, are still largely conditioned by it.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
Our social life is aimless without it, we are a crowd without a common understanding.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The evolution theory alleges that they were evolved, slowly, by natural processes out of previously existing matter.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford

British Dictionary definitions for social evolution

social evolution

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sociol the process of social development from an early simple type of social organization to one that is complex and highly specialized

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