The phrase "a lower stage of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a position or level that is beneath another in a hierarchy or developmental process.
Example: "The research indicates that this species is currently at a lower stage of evolution compared to its relatives."
Alternatives: "a lesser level of" or "an inferior phase of".
Ms Kjaersgaard accused Danish Muslims of living at a "lower stage of civilisation, with their own primitive and cruel customs".
Taine lamented the rise to power of the masses, whom he suggested were at a lower stage of biological evolution than aristocrats.
(Recombination is the process in which an atom at a high stage of excitation captures a lower energy electron and then drops into a lower stage of excitation).
In addition, B2 with or without serum produced embryos of a lower stage of development, lower quality and fewer cells than did B2 BRL coculture.
An important underlying principle of the staging process, which is to be performed at the initial assessment, is that patients cannot regress to a lower stage of periodontitis due to treatment, therefore, periodontal parameters that are significantly affected by treatment (for example, BoP and PPD) cannot be employed to determine disease stage.
The system descends to a "lower" stage of development and could also become extinct.
The TT and TC genotypes were more frequently observed in patients with tumors of a higher stage than those of a lower stage (Table 1).
Even though screening mammography offers better survival by way of a lower stage, unsurprisingly it is also an independent prognostic factor, whatever the stage.
Early theoretical models of development equated development with economic growth and industrialization, and theorists saw countries that had not yet achieved these as being at an earlier or lower stage of development relative to Europe and North America.
"It didn't look like an exploded rocket to me, it looked like a fairly normal piece of space junk when the lower stage of a rocket falls from a hundred miles up and hits the ocean.
To the north is the lower stage of a Norman tower, while to the south is the lower stage of a tower designed and begun, probably by Seth and George Derwall, in 1508, but left incomplete following the dissolution of the monastery in 1538.
