This was seen as further evidence that the species had already evolved a distinctive trait of early prehumans.
The technology didn't create a new aesthetic; it was developed to realize an aesthetic that had already evolved.
By contrast, the pelvis of the Lucy species had already evolved nearly all of the adaptations for bipedality.
Long before the Cambrian explosion, Dr. Smith and Dr. Harper argue, one lineage of animals had already evolved the genetic capacity for spectacular diversity.
That single-celled creature had already evolved clusters of genes that worked together to do particular jobs, like dividing cells or resisting stress.
In Russia, where Western developments were well known, the avant-garde, with its own roots in primitive art, had already evolved a simplified Expressionist style.
The 130,000-year date would put the discovery in a time when Homo sapiens had already evolved in Africa, sometime after 200,000 years ago.
By the end of the early Cambrian Period (roughly 521 million years ago), most, if not all, of the eye types in existence today had already evolved.
By the time he arrived in Los Angeles in 1999, his architectural obsession had already evolved into a substantial professional life.
The kind of tonality that had thrived in American music -- in the works of Aaron Copland and Ned Rorem -- had already evolved toward dissonance and structural complications.
The use of codex technology — a method that made it possible to record information on both sides of a page, in book form, as a cheaper alternative to scrolls — had already evolved in Rome.
