The phrase "a more highly evolved" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the development or advancement of a species, idea, or concept in a comparative context.
Example: "In the study of evolution, scientists often refer to humans as a more highly evolved species compared to their primate ancestors."
Alternatives: "a more advanced" or "a more developed".
Finally, a more highly evolved group of forest trees is the dicots, or broad-leaved trees, also called hardwoods.
But because humans are not hard-wired to worry about dangers 50 or 100 years away, global warming rarely makes the front page - except in the Independent, which probably thinks it is writing for a more highly evolved species anyway.
When I put on my non-fundamentalist pastor's hat, I wish to point out that the intuition of our fundamentalist critics of evolution has revealed what is right before the public's eye, namely, the insipient belief that a more highly evolved extraterrestrial species can save us on Earth from our own self-destruction.
Nowadays, though, we're surrounded by visions of celebrity grace and elegance and we're a bit more highly evolved, so as to make being disfigured, for the most part, a thing of the past.
In the "Lucubratio" he takes the opposite view that machines are extracorporeal limbs and that the more of these a man can tack on to himself the more highly evolved an organism he will be.
Immune response genes are also of great concern especially among invertebrates because they represent an early model of the more highly evolved innate immune system of vertebrates [ 57].
The mesoderm allows more highly evolved organisms to have an internal body cavity that houses and protects organs, bathing them in fluids and supporting them with connective tissue.
U Cephei is a classic example of such a system for which spectroscopic evidence shows streams of gas flowing from the more highly evolved star to the hotter companion, which is now the more massive of the two.
All vertebrates, including humans, require dietary sources of vitamin A, vitamin D, thiamin, riboflavin, vitamin B6, and pantothenic acid; some vertebrates, particularly the more highly evolved ones, have additional requirements for other vitamins.
These are ossified (bony) to different degrees, with more cartilage in the more highly evolved groups.
"They worried that people would find the dinosaurs more highly evolved than themselves," explained one.
