evolution of man
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- noun
- /ˌɛvəˈluːʃən əv mæn/
- Specialized
:
evolución del hombre
- It pains me to expose this view, which resulted from a study of the evolution of man's mind.
Examples
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They are about science's answers to the questions of the origins of the universe, the evolution of man, and the fundamental nature of the cosmos.
Blog text (10) -
The evolution of man does not allow us to deduce a direction.
Academic text (1991) -
However, the fact that there are no historical laws does not mean there are no patterns in the evolution of man.
Academic text (1991) -
He saw it as the next phase in the evolution of man as a technological animal.
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"Ed explained there had been some rumblings lately about a group out there... obsessed with the guided evolution of man.
Blog text (29) -
In fact, it has been speculated that climate change in East Africa contributed significantly to the evolution of man about a few million years ago, forcing our ancestors to adapt to the changes.
Blog text (21) -
It posits the gradual and progressive evolution of man through self-consciousness.
Academic text (1993) -
Or maybe, she thought, he was simply reverting to his simian roots? A reverse of those diagrams charting the evolution of man from apes.
Fiction book (1998) -
German biologist Ernst Haeckel (you may remember) presented a schematic diagram of "von Baer's Law" in the 1870s in a massive popular book on the biological evolution of man.
Blog text (5) -
The evolution of man over millions of years has fascinated scientists and researchers.
Synonyms
The process by which early primates changed into modern humans
The origin and early development of human beings
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase's meaning ('the gradual development of humans') is directly and compositionally derived from 'evolution' (change over time) + of + 'man' (humans). This noun-of-noun structure and the semantic roles are cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The phrase evolution of man makes us picture a long line of figures slowly changing from ape-like creatures into modern people. That picture explains the words: evolution means slow change and man means humans, so the phrase means 'the gradual development of humans from earlier forms over a very long time'.