Evolution Quotes

(general) gradual directional change especially one leading to a more advanced or complex form; growth; development 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene There are some examples of cultural Evolution in birds and monkeys, but ... it is our own species that really shows what cultural Evolution can do.
2005, Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth Suffering has a noble purpose: the Evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
(biology) The change in the genetic composition of a population over successive generations.
1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene [Some books have] made the erroneous assumption that the important thing in Evolution is the good of the species (or the group) rather than the good of the individual (or the gene).
(mathematics) The extraction of a root from a quantity.
(military) One of a series of ordered movements.