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Organic evolution

noun

(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms. Synonyms: evolution, phylogenesis, phylogeny.

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"Organic evolution" Quotes from Famous Books

... writings, at least among the English-speaking peoples, that this increasing realization of life as essentially a succession of births, is chiefly ascribed. It is mainly, as I have already suggested, the result of that great expansion of our sense of time and causation that has ensued from the idea of organic Evolution. In the course of one brief century, the human outlook upon the order of the world has been profoundly changed. It is not simply that it has become much more spacious, it is not only that it has opened out from the little history of a few thousand ...

— Mankind in the Making • H. G. Wells

... long journey. Human beings seem predestined, as it were, not only in a physical but in a mental sense, for what is coming, and the indications of this in the mental field are greater than the conditions of organic evolution could readily account for. The transcendency of the mind over the brain shows itself ...

— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

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