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Fans have enjoyed watching the characters evolve for over a decade now.

Military tactics evolved in response to machine guns and wire entanglements.

By loosely coupling the components, each is more free to evolve at its own pace.

Gramps said that those myths evolved because people needed a way to explain where fire came from and why there was evil in the world.  (source) Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons, 1994

They locked themselves in their laboratories, and tried to evolve, as gold had.  (source) Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, 1988

I devised a bizarre and ever evolving rubric by which I measured his love for me, and when he failed to meet it, I became paranoid.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

At this time of life a man has already been wounded more than once by the darts of love; it no longer evolves by itself, obeying its own incomprehensible and fatal laws, before his passive and astonished heart.†  (source) Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, 1913

Their working relationship evolved quickly into courtship, then love.  (source) Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore, 2010

The woods begin to evolve, and the pines are intermixed with a variety of trees, some I recognize, some completely foreign to me.  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

A taboo was evolving round that word too.  (source) William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 1954

How could our parents have ever imagined that someday we would end up in a country where monosyllabic names reign supreme, a land where "William" is shortened to "Bill," where "Susan" becomes "Sue," and "Richard" somehow evolves into "Dick"?†  (source) Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi, 2003

If only people were smarter, evolved enough to treat everyone the same even if they looked different.  (source) Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005

Meanwhile, the OASIS continued to evolve and grow in popularity, protected from takeover attempts and legal challenges by the ironclad terms of Halliday's will and the army of rabid lawyers he had tasked with administering his estate.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

Different mutations had occurred in the isolated populations that evolved in different cave systems.

Traits that evolved through sexual selection are particularly prominent among males of several animal species.

Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't a will to survive.  (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977

Our hands evolved to grip tools, all right—including our own.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

As the Count listened, the essence of the Englishman's idea seemed perfectly intuitive— that over tens of thousands of years a species would slowly evolve in order to maximize its chances of survival.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

"The stegosaurs are a mid-Jurassic animal, evolving about a hundred and seventy million years ago," the recording said.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

DNA evolves over time, like everything else in an organism-hands or feet or any other physical attribute.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

Many other large species have associated creatures that have evolved to eat their excrement.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

I wonder why we didn't evolve with eyes in the back of our heads?  (source) Susan Ee, Angelfall, 2012

Like, they're evolving faster?  (source) John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, 2017

And single-celled life emerged in the oceans, and then over billions of years, life got more abundant and complex, until two hundred fifty thousand or so years ago, humans evolved, and we started using more advanced tools, and then eventually built spaceships and everything.  (source) John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, 2017

Yet long before Columbus arrived, that wild grass had managed to evolve into maize and spread across North America.  (source) Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, 2009

Such neck flexion was so common in fossils that some scientists had formulated a theory to explain it, suggesting that the dinosaurs had become extinct because they had been poisoned by the evolving alkaloids in plants.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993