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(noun) development
a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
the development of his ideas took many years; the evolution of Greek civilization; the slow development of her skill as a writer
(noun) phylogenesis, phylogeny, organic evolution
(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms