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1893 Philos. Rev. 2 232 Evolutionarily, neural modes of energy have been developed from infra-neural modes.

1945 Scrutiny 13 iii. 163 The development of a balanced, critical prose style is of course a compensating (and evolutionarily necessary) virtue, but one that itself is perhaps evidence of a failing creativity.

1969 R. B. Fuller Operating Man. Spaceship Earth viii. 117 We cannot have mass production unless we have mass consumption. This was effected evolutionarily by the great social struggles of labor to increase wages and spread the benefits.

2001 Guardian 26 Apr. ii. 18/1 The genetic disease Huntington's chorea has not been deselected evolutionarily because it manifests itself ‘phenotypically’ in middle age, after the sufferer is likely to have produced offspring.