We have many examples of organisms becoming less complex as they evolve.
Though the "war on drugs" continues, the approach is gradually becoming less dogmatic and more pragmatic.
The militants are gradually becoming less radical; giving them a bigger political role, he argues, will accelerate that mutation.
In the late 20th century they were principally reindeer herders, collectivized under the Soviets, though their way of life was only gradually becoming less nomadic.
Although the region is gradually becoming less dependent on federal spending, the federal government is still its largest employer by far.
He found himself working 20-hour days, seven days a week, and gradually becoming less creative, less productive and less happy: "For about six months last year, for the first time really, the happiness drained away.
The observed change in the DOM characteristics along the aquatic continuum also suggests that the terrestrial DOM pool is gradually becoming less reactive, which has profound consequences on cycling of organic carbon in aquatic ecosystems.
If these stories 'were written in much the order they have here', as a brisk sentence added to the acknowledgements indicates, then Updike has been weighing the joys and traumas of the Sixties, with his verdict gradually becoming less indulgent.
In the circumstances, his reappearance fifth last month was very fair but it is three years since his last win on the Flat and his profile is gradually becoming less attractive.
I tell the doctor that I feel able to 'pass' most of the time, and that it's gradually becoming less effort as the oestrogen subtly softens my complexion and shifts my facial structure.
Central Europe consists of a dense network of road, railways and inland waterways (IWT) gradually becoming less dense as the periphery is approached and population densities reduce (TRANSVisions 2009).
