{
  "id": "evolution.biological",
  "term": "evolution",
  "sense": "biological",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 2,
  "domain": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "change that persists through time and differs from before, with regular differences that repeat over time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "change.process",
      "persist.continue",
      "regular.frequency",
      "difference.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "Change persists through time while accumulating regular differences that repeat across generations.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "adaptive variation",
      "inherited change over time"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "adaptation.biological",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "evolution enables adaptation through inherited change"
    },
    {
      "id": "growth.development",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "evolution is change across generations; growth is change within a life"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "evolution",
    "evolutions"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-evolution.biological"
}