Lore EA evolution
Latin evolutio "development, unfolding; action of reading through"
1624, "the action or process of opening out, unfolding, or unrolling; esp. the unfolding or progression of a series of events in orderly succession"
1676, "the action or process of developing in detail what is implicit in an idea or principle; the development of an argument, design, etc."
"Consider that some seeds evolve naturally, while some are structured.
A natural evolution is an unfolding of will and choice. There is no fixed goal.
A structuring is the building of something with a specific goal. It is therefore determined, in advance, how to reach the aim, but without the benefit of the lessons that are yet to come, and prior to reaping any wisdom that would naturally arise from a gradual unfolding."
"Originals"
Modern use in biology, of species, first attested 1832 in works of Scottish geologist Charles Lyell.
Charles Darwin used the word in print once only, in the closing paragraph of "The Origin of Species" (1859), and preferred descent with modification, in part because evolution already had been used in the discarded 18c. homunculus theory of embryological development (first proposed under this name by Bonnet, 1762) and in part because it carried a sense of "progress" not present in Darwin's idea. But Victorian belief in progress prevailed (and the advantages of brevity), and Herbert Spencer and other biologists after Darwin popularized evolution.
Etymonline.com
| ~☉~ | lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context |
| ⚜ | classic definition |
| ☣ | artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense |
