evolutionary change
1Evolutionary developmental biology — (evolution of development or informally, evo devo) is a field of biology that compares the developmental processes of different animals and plants in an attempt to determine the ancestral relationship between organisms and how developmental… …
2Evolutionary invasion analysis — Evolutionary invasion analysis, also known as adaptive dynamics, is a set of techniques for studying long term phenotypical evolution developed during the 1990s. It incorporates the concept of frequency dependence from game theory but allows for… …
3evolutionary — UK US /ˌIːvəˈluːʃənəri/ /ˌevəˈ / US / er / adjective ► developing a product, service, or process by making many gradual changes: evolutionary change/progress/development »Sustainable business development involves systematically creating a better …
4evolutionary — [[t]i͟ːvəlu͟ːʃənri, AM neri[/t]] ADJ: usu ADJ n Evolutionary means relating to a process of gradual change and development. ...an evolutionary process. ...a period of evolutionary change …
5evolutionary trend — noun a general direction of evolutionary change • Hypernyms: ↑drift, ↑trend, ↑movement • Hyponyms: ↑neoteny …
6Evolutionary psychology — (EP) attempts to explain mental and psychological traits such as memory, perception, or language as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection. Adaptationist thinking about physiological mechanisms,… …
7change — change, social change One of the central problems of sociology . In the middle of the nineteenth century, the first attempts at sociological analysis were prompted by the need to explain two great waves of change that were sweeping across Europe …
8Evolutionary anthropology — is the study of the relation between social behavior and the evolution of hominids and non hominid primates. It includes:* The anthropology of human evolution. * The sociocultural evolution of human behavior. * The archaeological study of human… …
9Evolutionary theory and the political left — have had a sometimes wary relationship with one another. Some on the political left, especially Marxists and communists, have been critical of aspects of the theory of evolution by natural selection (Darwinism). Some of this opposition appears… …
10Evolutionary Rapid Development — or ERD is a software engineering technique developed by the Software Productivity Consortium, a technology development and integration agent for the Information Technology Office of DARPA. :Fundamental to ERD is the concept of composing software… …
