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These features had not been seen before in early dinosaurs, suggesting they were evolving in more complex ways than previously understood.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

She said the priorities of the summit were evolving multilateral development banks, debt sustainability and mobilising private capital.

From Reuters • Jun. 22, 2023

“The group’s iconic style can be seen as a hybridization of Eastern-Asian calligraphic traditions and the tendencies toward gestural abstraction that were evolving across international modern painting,” Smith said.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2023

So by testing which libraries had the best solubility and structure, the researchers could conclude that proteins were evolving and driving natural selection before even forming living things.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2023

As we shall see, Aborigines in the climatically most favorable areas of Australia were evolving in a direction that might have eventuated in food production.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond